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... leisure hour . You are too well acquainted with the genius of the Persian language , not to perceive the rashness of my attempt ; I do not indeed pretend to give the beauty of the original , but merely its sense , simple and ...
... leisure hour . You are too well acquainted with the genius of the Persian language , not to perceive the rashness of my attempt ; I do not indeed pretend to give the beauty of the original , but merely its sense , simple and ...
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... leisure hours . My relapse has produced the translation of about fifty odes of our learned Hafez , For whom , each hour a growing fondness brings , † As by degrees the vernal alder springs . But observing , in the progress of the work ...
... leisure hours . My relapse has produced the translation of about fifty odes of our learned Hafez , For whom , each hour a growing fondness brings , † As by degrees the vernal alder springs . But observing , in the progress of the work ...
Page 81
... leisure , and which the total want of it made almost inevitable . Excuse also the inser- tion of the two odes , which you sent to me with a French translation only ; and lastly , I must beg your excuse for the liberty which I could not ...
... leisure , and which the total want of it made almost inevitable . Excuse also the inser- tion of the two odes , which you sent to me with a French translation only ; and lastly , I must beg your excuse for the liberty which I could not ...
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... leisure , with some degree of independence . In the mean time , I amuse myself with the choicest of the Persian poets ; and I have the good fortune to possess many manuscripts , which I have either purchased or borrowed from my friends ...
... leisure , with some degree of independence . In the mean time , I amuse myself with the choicest of the Persian poets ; and I have the good fortune to possess many manuscripts , which I have either purchased or borrowed from my friends ...
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... leisure to publish my Commentaries on Asiatic Poetry . T Do not however imagine that I despise the usual enjoyments of youth ; no one can take more delight in singing and dancing than I do , nor in the moderate use of wine , nor in the ...
... leisure to publish my Commentaries on Asiatic Poetry . T Do not however imagine that I despise the usual enjoyments of youth ; no one can take more delight in singing and dancing than I do , nor in the moderate use of wine , nor in the ...
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Page 378 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 67 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 325 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 365 - The Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom.
Page 68 - Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest: Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 266 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 21 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page 187 - I pass with haste by the coast of Africa, whence my mind " turns with indignation at the abominable traffic in the human " species, from which a part of our countrymen dare to derive " their most inauspicious wealth.
Page 306 - Musul" man subjects of Great Britain, that the private laws which " they severally hold sacred, and a violation of which they "would have thought the most grievous oppression, should "not be superseded by a new system, of which they could " have no knowledge, and which they must have considered as " imposed on them by a spirit of rigour and intolerance.
Page 288 - To this spot,' says his amiable and intelligent biographer, Lord Teignmouth, ' he returned every evening after sunset, and in the morning rose so early, as to reach his apartments in town, by walking, at the first appearance of dawn. The intervening period of each morning, until the opening of court, was regularly allotted and applied to distinct studies.