The Warner Library, Volume 2Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer Warner Library Company, 1917 - Literature |
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Page 655
... Fair Lady The Death of ' Abdallâh PAGE 665 676 677 679 680 681 681 682 Ash - Shanfarà of Azd 683 Zeynab at the Ka'bah 684 The Unveiled Maid 684 From the Diwan of al - Nabighah 686 Nusaib . 686 Vengeance 687 Patience Abu Sakhr An Address ...
... Fair Lady The Death of ' Abdallâh PAGE 665 676 677 679 680 681 681 682 Ash - Shanfarà of Azd 683 Zeynab at the Ka'bah 684 The Unveiled Maid 684 From the Diwan of al - Nabighah 686 Nusaib . 686 Vengeance 687 Patience Abu Sakhr An Address ...
Page 663
... FRANCIS BACON Photogravure Frontispiece Facing page 704 " " " 740 788 66 95,6 66 1 : 3 13 15 . " 6 1018 1040 1084 66 1155 ARABIC LITERATURE BY RICHARD GOTTHEIL F NO civilization is the XV - A Fair Lady The Death of 'Abdallâh PAGE.
... FRANCIS BACON Photogravure Frontispiece Facing page 704 " " " 740 788 66 95,6 66 1 : 3 13 15 . " 6 1018 1040 1084 66 1155 ARABIC LITERATURE BY RICHARD GOTTHEIL F NO civilization is the XV - A Fair Lady The Death of 'Abdallâh PAGE.
Page 677
... Fair peace in the morn to thee ! " Look forth , O friend ! canst thou see aught of ladies , camel - borne , that journey along the upland there , above Jurthum well ? Their litters are hung with precious stuffs , and their veils thereon ...
... Fair peace in the morn to thee ! " Look forth , O friend ! canst thou see aught of ladies , camel - borne , that journey along the upland there , above Jurthum well ? Their litters are hung with precious stuffs , and their veils thereon ...
Page 678
... fair to an eye skilled to trace out loveliness . And the tassels of scarlet wool , in the spots where they gat them down glowed red , like to ' ishrik seeds , fresh - fallen , unbroken , bright . And then they reached the wells where ...
... fair to an eye skilled to trace out loveliness . And the tassels of scarlet wool , in the spots where they gat them down glowed red , like to ' ishrik seeds , fresh - fallen , unbroken , bright . And then they reached the wells where ...
Page 680
... of succor . -Now on ' Amir be peace , and praises , and blessing , wherever be on earth her way- or her halting ! * The five names foregoing are those of mountains . A FAIR LADY From the Mu'allakât of Antara ' : 680 ARABIC LITERATURE.
... of succor . -Now on ' Amir be peace , and praises , and blessing , wherever be on earth her way- or her halting ! * The five names foregoing are those of mountains . A FAIR LADY From the Mu'allakât of Antara ' : 680 ARABIC LITERATURE.
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Acharnians Arabic Aristophanes Aristotle Arnold Arthurian legend Aucassin Averroës Avesta beautiful benefits will ye bird body called century comedy cried dead dear death Dubricius earth English Euripides eyes fair faith father feel Fourchambault friends Gaston Paris genius German German's fatherland hand Haoma hast hath heard heart heaven holy honor horse intellectual intelligence King Arthur land Laplace Layamon learned light literary literature live look Lord LORD'S benefits LUDOVICO ARIOSTO Marcus Aurelius matter Medoro mind nature never Nicolette night noble o'er Orlando Orlando Furioso passed philosopher Phosphorists poem poet poetic poetry praise prose Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan Sir Mordred smelling-salts song soul speak spirit sweet sword tell thee things thought took Translation unto verse voice Walpurga wife word Yasna ye ungratefully deny young youth Yudhisthira
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Page 1165 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 877 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 1166 - Certainly there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Page 877 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 1173 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 1176 - ... in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia, 'That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad; whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.
Page 987 - Away with cant, and let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone.
Page 1174 - ... they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except (to make themselves capable thereof) they raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience.
Page 1168 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 1171 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.