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... kind of poetry to the Latin elegy , but its construction partakes of that of the Gazel , with this difference , that the latter is re- stricted to thirteen couplets , whilst the number of those in the Kasidah is unlimited ; and secondly ...
... kind of poetry to the Latin elegy , but its construction partakes of that of the Gazel , with this difference , that the latter is re- stricted to thirteen couplets , whilst the number of those in the Kasidah is unlimited ; and secondly ...
Page 64
... kind , for the very first hemistich is transcribed from one of Yezid * , the son of Mo- wavea , * Yezid was the son of Mowavea , the first Caliph of the race of Ommiah , wavea , with an alteration only in the collocation of 64.
... kind , for the very first hemistich is transcribed from one of Yezid * , the son of Mo- wavea , * Yezid was the son of Mowavea , the first Caliph of the race of Ommiah , wavea , with an alteration only in the collocation of 64.
Page 75
... kind of resemblance to the orders of nobility , who are employed in war , and in the management of public affairs ; but the prin- cipal strength is in the pawns , or people : if these are firmly united , they are sure of victory , but ...
... kind of resemblance to the orders of nobility , who are employed in war , and in the management of public affairs ; but the prin- cipal strength is in the pawns , or people : if these are firmly united , they are sure of victory , but ...
Page 85
... its ele- gance , receive an additional beauty from its exactness . After we had walked , with a kind of poetical enthusiasm , over this enchanted ground , we returned to the village . The The poet's house was close to the church ; the 85.
... its ele- gance , receive an additional beauty from its exactness . After we had walked , with a kind of poetical enthusiasm , over this enchanted ground , we returned to the village . The The poet's house was close to the church ; the 85.
Page 117
... kind on silken paper , would , I doubt not , be very acceptable to the Governor of Bengal , and the other principal persons in India . I cannot con- ceive what is become of the book which I sent to you , but I will take the first ...
... kind on silken paper , would , I doubt not , be very acceptable to the Governor of Bengal , and the other principal persons in India . I cannot con- ceive what is become of the book which I sent to you , but I will take the first ...
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Page 402 - ... 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: both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 466 - ... no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 402 - 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 623 - Da be' rami scendea, (Dolce ne la memoria) Una pioggia di fior sovra '1 suo grembo; Et ella si sedea Umile in tanta gloria, Coverta già de l'amoroso nembo. Qual fior cadea sul lembo, Qual su le treccie bionde, Ch'oro forbito e perle Eran quel dì a vederle ; Qual si posava in terra, e qual su l'onde ; Qual con un vago errore Girando parea dir: 'Qui regna Amore.
Page 466 - 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...
Page 452 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
Page 84 - 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 furrowed 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 116 - My friends, companions, relations, all attacked me with urgent solicitations to banish poetry and Oriental literature for a time, and apply myself to oratory and the study of the law ; in other words, to become a barrister, and pursue the track of ambition. Their advice in truth was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law ; and I need not add, how ambitious and laborious I am.
Page 231 - 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 490 - ... delight ; but I never could learn by what right, nor conceive with what feelings a naturalist can occasion the misery of an innocent bird, and leave its young, perhaps, to perish in a cold nest, because it has gay plumage, and has never been accurately delineated ; or deprive even a butterfly of its natural enjoyments, because it has the misfortune to be rare or beautiful...