 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pagine
...human greatness, forced itself on his mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of 'Persian pocty : " The spider has wove his "web in the Imperial palace;...the owl hath sung her "watch-song on the towers of Airasiab."" Hisbeha- Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem Greeks/ * complete, till... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pagine
...greatness, forced itself on his mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : " The spi" der has wove his web in the Imperial palace ; and the " owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afra« si ab77." Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory the seem complete, till he was... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1823 - 336 pagine
...human greatness forced itself on his mind, and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : ' The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace,...on the towers of Afrasiab."' — Decline and Fall, &c., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22. The Bowl of Liberty — cup called the Bowl of Liberty, which was afterwards... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1826 - 620 pagine
...human greatness forced itself on his mind : and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace,...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." NOTE 26, PAGE 22. The Moor, and all his bands, the Lusian Chief Receiv'd with generous hospitality.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pagine
...human greatness, forced itself on his mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : " The spider has wove his web in the Imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her \vatch-song on the towers of Afrasiab."77 Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pagine
...repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: " The spider has wove his web in the Imperial pa" lace ; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on " the towers of Afrasiab." Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory His beha. seem complete, till he was informed of... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 764 pagine
...Caesars ; and the often quoted, but ever beautiful and feeling distich of Hafiz flowed from his lips: " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." The fate of Constantine was here announced to him, the body being recognised by the golden eagles embroidered... | |
 | John Hartley - 1831 - 426 pagine
...chaunt from age to age the dirge of these forsaken cities. And here the distich of Hafiz is most true : The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab. I paid a visit to the city of Colossae — if that, indeed, may be called a visit, which left us in... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 pagine
...human greatness forced itself on his mind, and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace,...the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afraoiab.' "—Decline and Fall, i$*., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22, page 191, col. 2. The bowl ofliberty.... | |
 | Dugald Moore - 1831 - 276 pagine
...waters wild, And her last gurgle was a prayer Gasp'd o'er her drowning child ! The spider has woven his web in the imperial palace ; and The owl hath sung her watch-son? on the towers of Afrasiab. DISTICH OF PERSIAN POETRY. A DEAD and melancholy stream, that... | |
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A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind, and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: 'The spider has wove his web in the Imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of... 
