Retrospective Review, Volume 3C. and H. Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... poets of Cor- dova , the literature of a splendid dynasty of seven hundred years ? Alas ! " les Maures vainqueurs des Espagnols , ne perse- cuterent point les vaincus ; les Espagnols vainqueurs des Maures , les ont persecutés et chassés ...
... poets of Cor- dova , the literature of a splendid dynasty of seven hundred years ? Alas ! " les Maures vainqueurs des Espagnols , ne perse- cuterent point les vaincus ; les Espagnols vainqueurs des Maures , les ont persecutés et chassés ...
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... poetic parts of the Koran . By the sun , and its rising brightness ; By the moon , when she followeth him ; By the day , when it sheweth his splendor : By the night , when it covereth him with darkness ; By the heaven , and him who ...
... poetic parts of the Koran . By the sun , and its rising brightness ; By the moon , when she followeth him ; By the day , when it sheweth his splendor : By the night , when it covereth him with darkness ; By the heaven , and him who ...
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... poet , or the annual celebration of his birth - day ? Posthumous fame , after all the fine sentences that have been lavished upon it , is the emptiest bubble that dances on the surface of existence - the most unsubstantial pageant ...
... poet , or the annual celebration of his birth - day ? Posthumous fame , after all the fine sentences that have been lavished upon it , is the emptiest bubble that dances on the surface of existence - the most unsubstantial pageant ...
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... poets commend Leda for her black hair , and not unworthily . Leda fuit nigris conspicienda comis . " As Ovid hath it ; yet was that blackness but a darker brown , and not so fearful as this of the French women . Again the blackness of ...
... poets commend Leda for her black hair , and not unworthily . Leda fuit nigris conspicienda comis . " As Ovid hath it ; yet was that blackness but a darker brown , and not so fearful as this of the French women . Again the blackness of ...
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... we may call those post - horses which we rode on as lean they were as Envie is in the Poet : Macies in corpora tota , being most true of them . Neither were they onely lean enough to have their ribs 30 Heylin's Voyage to France .
... we may call those post - horses which we rode on as lean they were as Envie is in the Poet : Macies in corpora tota , being most true of them . Neither were they onely lean enough to have their ribs 30 Heylin's Voyage to France .
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