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John Shore Baron Teignmouth. same sentiments with the Persian . I hope to have the satisfaction of seeing you here ... Persians , in some species of poetry , I would , without hesitation , renounce all knowledge of the three Eastern ...
John Shore Baron Teignmouth. same sentiments with the Persian . I hope to have the satisfaction of seeing you here ... Persians , in some species of poetry , I would , without hesitation , renounce all knowledge of the three Eastern ...
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... Persians and Hindus , com- posed some years afterwards in India , ( Works , vol . i . page 445. ) he thus expresses himself on the subject : " It has been made a question whether " the poems of Hafez must be taken in a literal or ...
... Persians and Hindus , com- posed some years afterwards in India , ( Works , vol . i . page 445. ) he thus expresses himself on the subject : " It has been made a question whether " the poems of Hafez must be taken in a literal or ...
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... Persians , and often deficient in taste and harmony . I cannot comprehend how you have discovered an indelicate meaning in these beautiful lines of Mesihi : Send me not , O God , to the tomb , before I have embraced my friend ...
... Persians , and often deficient in taste and harmony . I cannot comprehend how you have discovered an indelicate meaning in these beautiful lines of Mesihi : Send me not , O God , to the tomb , before I have embraced my friend ...
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... Persian poets . In the judgment of Sadi , Hafez is unequal ; some of his odes are excellent , others very inferior , and some very tame , whilst Jamni preserves an equality throughout . I have not translated the ode of Hafez , " If that ...
... Persian poets . In the judgment of Sadi , Hafez is unequal ; some of his odes are excellent , others very inferior , and some very tame , whilst Jamni preserves an equality throughout . I have not translated the ode of Hafez , " If that ...
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... Persian ode , together with an attempt at a poetical version of it , which I will hereafter improve . Pray inform me whether there is any translation of Hafez , printed or manuscript , in Latin , or any other European language ; for I ...
... Persian ode , together with an attempt at a poetical version of it , which I will hereafter improve . Pray inform me whether there is any translation of Hafez , printed or manuscript , in Latin , or any other European language ; for I ...
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