A tour to Sheeraz by the rout of Kazroon & Feerozabad [&c.]. To which is added A history of Persia, from the death of Kureem Khan to the subversion of the Zund dynasty. [With] Appendix |
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... probably defeat , a whole caravan . Two Fursukhs from Kazroon are the ruins of a very large town called Dires . The marks of its former splendour and magnificence are still discoverable ; and the faint traces of mouldering walls and ...
... probably defeat , a whole caravan . Two Fursukhs from Kazroon are the ruins of a very large town called Dires . The marks of its former splendour and magnificence are still discoverable ; and the faint traces of mouldering walls and ...
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... probably extends half a mile , and is , I should suppose , fifty feet wide . They have a story , that Kureem Khan riding through it soon after the work was completed , saw a nail driven into the wall , and detecting the offender ...
... probably extends half a mile , and is , I should suppose , fifty feet wide . They have a story , that Kureem Khan riding through it soon after the work was completed , saw a nail driven into the wall , and detecting the offender ...
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... . i . p . 10 . The passage which procured the poet's interment was singular ; the one chosen for Nadir Shah not less so : both of them probably selected for the occasion . And in my collection of his poems , there is [ 37 ]
... . i . p . 10 . The passage which procured the poet's interment was singular ; the one chosen for Nadir Shah not less so : both of them probably selected for the occasion . And in my collection of his poems , there is [ 37 ]
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... probably have to creep through a small door not five feet high . Their houses are surrounded by a high wall , so that their view is terminated by the extent of their ground , which is not , however , to be regretted in a city . On ...
... probably have to creep through a small door not five feet high . Their houses are surrounded by a high wall , so that their view is terminated by the extent of their ground , which is not , however , to be regretted in a city . On ...
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... probably engaged with them till nine o'clock ; listening to the reports of the morning , settling disputes , and arranging domestic concerns . It is now time for him to visit the prince or the governor ; and if he is likely to be ...
... probably engaged with them till nine o'clock ; listening to the reports of the morning , settling disputes , and arranging domestic concerns . It is now time for him to visit the prince or the governor ; and if he is likely to be ...
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Seite 155 - Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow; good grows with her. In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. God shall be truly known; and those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Seite 251 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 169 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Seite 232 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground ; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Seite 234 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
Seite 233 - VII. Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae ; mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet 5 ducere nuda choros, immortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum quae rapit hora diem, frigora mitescunt Zephyris, ver proterit aestas interitura, simul 10 pomifer autumnus fruges effuderit, et mox bruma recurrit iners.
Seite 254 - ... be lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms, that external appearances and sensations are illusory, and would vanish into nothing, if the divine energy, which alone sustains them, were suspended but for a moment...
Seite 251 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Seite 154 - This royal infant, (heaven still move about her !) Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, Which time shall bring to ripeness...
Seite 18 - And level pavement. From the arched roof) Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.