Thalaba the Destroyer: A Rhythmical Romance, Volume 1T.B. Wait, and Charles Williams, 1812 |
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... heard reproof , His brow in manly frowns was knit , With manly thoughts his heart was full . " Tell me who slew my father ? " cried the boy . Zeinab replied and said , " I knew not that there liv'd thy father's foe . The blessings of ...
... heard reproof , His brow in manly frowns was knit , With manly thoughts his heart was full . " Tell me who slew my father ? " cried the boy . Zeinab replied and said , " I knew not that there liv'd thy father's foe . The blessings of ...
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... heard , and he look'd up to heaven , And tears ran down his cheeks : " It is a human voice ! I thank thee , O my God ! - How many an age hath past Since the sweet sounds have visited my ear ! I thank thee , O my God , It is a human ...
... heard , and he look'd up to heaven , And tears ran down his cheeks : " It is a human voice ! I thank thee , O my God ! - How many an age hath past Since the sweet sounds have visited my ear ! I thank thee , O my God , It is a human ...
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... heard in yon wilderness waste ! O'er all the winding sands The tents of Ad were pitch'd ; Happy Al - Ahkaf then , For many and brave were her sons , Her daughters were many and fair . " My name was Aswad then- Alas ! alas ! how strange ...
... heard in yon wilderness waste ! O'er all the winding sands The tents of Ad were pitch'd ; Happy Al - Ahkaf then , For many and brave were her sons , Her daughters were many and fair . " My name was Aswad then- Alas ! alas ! how strange ...
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... Heard him , and heeded not . It chanced my father went the way of man , He perish'd in his sins . The funeral rites were duly paid , We bound a camel to his grave , And left it there to die , So if the resurrection came Together they ...
... Heard him , and heeded not . It chanced my father went the way of man , He perish'd in his sins . The funeral rites were duly paid , We bound a camel to his grave , And left it there to die , So if the resurrection came Together they ...
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... An everlasting Now of misery ! — Ye must have heard their fame , Or likely ye have seen The mighty Pyramids , - For sure those mighty piles shall overlive The feeble generations of mankind . What though unmov'd they 22.
... An everlasting Now of misery ! — Ye must have heard their fame , Or likely ye have seen The mighty Pyramids , - For sure those mighty piles shall overlive The feeble generations of mankind . What though unmov'd they 22.
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Abdaldar Algiers Allah Almanzor Angels Arabian Arabs arrows art thou Aswad Azazil Azrael Babylon Bagdad beautiful Bedouins beheld birds bitumen body buried burning Caliph called Camel cast cave cloud colour command corpse cried dark death desert Dromedary earth Eblis Euphrates exclaim'd eyes father fear feet fire fruit Genii gold hand Haruth and Maruth hath head heard heart Heaven Hirah Hodeirah horse hour houses Irem Khawla Khorasan Koran light lips LOBABA locusts look'd Lord Mahommed Mahommedans Mare matrass Mecca Moath Mohareb Mosques Mosul mountain nest never night o'er Oneiza palace palm Persia prayer Pyramid rain rais'd Ring round ruins sand says shade Shedad side Sorcerer soul spake spell Spirit stone stood taste the pain tent Thalaba thee thing thou hast tower traveller tree Turks voice wind wonderful youth Zeinab Zohak
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Page 137 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; '" which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid. " What time they wax warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Page 155 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...
Page 7 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray, The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky ; How beautiful is night...
Page 202 - If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down : for that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin : wherein shall he sleep ? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Page 222 - ... majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
Page 256 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 216 - I cast (as I believed) a last look on the surrounding scene, and whilst I reflected on the awful change that was about to take place, this world, with its enjoyments, seemed to vanish from my recollection.
Page 215 - I found my horse devouring the stubble and brushwood with great avidity ; and as I was now too faint to attempt walking, and my horse too much fatigued to carry me, I thought it but an act of humanity, and perhaps the last I should ever...
Page 131 - And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Page 119 - Oh ! even with such a look, as fables say, The Mother Ostrich fixes on her egg, Till that intense affection Kindle its light of life, * Even in such deep and breathless tenderness Oneiza's soul is centred on the youth...