Thalaba the Destroyer, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 |
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... spake the horn , But pour'd a sweet and thrilling melody : The gates flew open , and a flood of light Rush'd on his dazzled eyes . Was it to earthly Eden , lost so long , The youth had found the wonderous way ? But earthly Eden boasts ...
... spake the horn , But pour'd a sweet and thrilling melody : The gates flew open , and a flood of light Rush'd on his dazzled eyes . Was it to earthly Eden , lost so long , The youth had found the wonderous way ? But earthly Eden boasts ...
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... spake , her joints Were loosen'd , and her knees sunk under her . " Cheer up , Oneiza ! " Thalaba replied , " Be of good heart . We cannot fly " The dangers of the place , " But we can conquer them ! " . And the young Arab's soul Arose ...
... spake , her joints Were loosen'd , and her knees sunk under her . " Cheer up , Oneiza ! " Thalaba replied , " Be of good heart . We cannot fly " The dangers of the place , " But we can conquer them ! " . And the young Arab's soul Arose ...
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... spake " Fix'd on him the proud eye of sovereignty ; " If thou hast play'd with us , " By Allah and by Ali , Death shall seal " The lying lips for ever ! if the thing " Be as thou sayest it , Arab , thou shalt stand " Next to ourself ...
... spake " Fix'd on him the proud eye of sovereignty ; " If thou hast play'd with us , " By Allah and by Ali , Death shall seal " The lying lips for ever ! if the thing " Be as thou sayest it , Arab , thou shalt stand " Next to ourself ...
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... spake ; But yet so ghastly he look'd , That I have awaken'd at night With the dream of his ghastly eyes . Now go not among the Tombs , Old Man ! OLD MAN . Wherefore has the wrath of God So sorely stricken him ? WOMAN . He came a ...
... spake ; But yet so ghastly he look'd , That I have awaken'd at night With the dream of his ghastly eyes . Now go not among the Tombs , Old Man ! OLD MAN . Wherefore has the wrath of God So sorely stricken him ? WOMAN . He came a ...
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... spake , The resignation that inspir'd his speech , They soften'd Thalaba . " Thou hast a solace in thy grief , " he cried , " A comforter within ! " Moath thou seest me here , " Deliver'd to the Evil Powers , " A God - abandon'd wretch ...
... spake , The resignation that inspir'd his speech , They soften'd Thalaba . " Thou hast a solace in thy grief , " he cried , " A comforter within ! " Moath thou seest me here , " Deliver'd to the Evil Powers , " A God - abandon'd wretch ...
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Afreet Allah Aloadin amid Angel Angel of Death Arab Arabian Maid arms Azrael beheld blood body breath called ceas'd cheek clos'd cold courser cried darkness dead death devil dost thou earth Eblis evil exclaim'd father fear feet fire flame gates grave Green Bird hand hath head heart Heaven Hell Hodeirah's hour human voice Khawla king Kiou laid LAILA leave light lips little boat look'd Lord magic Maimuna Maracci Maronite Mecca Moath Mohareb morning mountains Mycone night o'er Okba Oneiza Paradise Pausanias Persians pomegranates prayer prophet quoth Thalaba rais'd ROBERT SOUTHEY rock round sate sayd scholde sepulchres Simorg sleep snow solitude song Sorcerer soul sound spake Spirit steed stood Sultan THALABA THE DESTROYER thee Theophylus thou hast tomb Tostatus tree Turks turn'd vale Vampire voice Vroucolacas whence wilt wind wings Woman wonder youth Zenati
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Page 70 - And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 101 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
Page 250 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 89 - He found a Woman in the cave, A solitary Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame; Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was grey.
Page 250 - I had suffered in the first instance, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth ; and...
Page 214 - Or weigh the thought that from mans mind doth flow But if the weight of these thou canst not show, Weigh but one word which from thy lips doth fall : For how canst thou those greater secrets know, That doest not know the least thing of them all ? Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Page 91 - Yet was it so wonderously thin, That, save when it shone in the light, You might look for it closely in vain. The youth sate watching it, And she observed his wonder, And then again she spake, And still her speech was song;
Page 70 - For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head...
Page 86 - ... and bold excrescences, and spend itself in leaves and little rings, and afford but trifling clusters to the winepress, and a faint return to his heart, which longed to be refreshed with a full vintage : but when the lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and...
Page 92 - And round and round his right hand, And round and round his left, He wound the thread so fine. And then again the Woman spake, And still her speech was song, " Now thy strength, O Stranger, strain! Now then break the slender chain.