A tour to Sheeraz by the rout of Kazroon & Feerozabad [&c.]. To which is added A history of Persia, from the death of Kureem Khan to the subversion of the Zund dynasty. [With] Appendix |
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... five feet high . Their houses are surrounded by a high wall , so that their view is terminated by the extent of their ground , which is not , however , to be regretted in a city . On passing the door , through a narrow passage , you ...
... five feet high . Their houses are surrounded by a high wall , so that their view is terminated by the extent of their ground , which is not , however , to be regretted in a city . On passing the door , through a narrow passage , you ...
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... five days are allotted to the latter , and only two to the former . The first room you enter is the place where you undress , smoke , talk , and hear the news of the day . The next room is the bath , the floor of which is marble stone ...
... five days are allotted to the latter , and only two to the former . The first room you enter is the place where you undress , smoke , talk , and hear the news of the day . The next room is the bath , the floor of which is marble stone ...
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... five shil- lings , at Bushire for about a guinea . They each make one sword , and it rests entirely on chance how it may turn out . If they are full of Jouhur ( damask ) they are very valuable ; but it is said that much depends on the ...
... five shil- lings , at Bushire for about a guinea . They each make one sword , and it rests entirely on chance how it may turn out . If they are full of Jouhur ( damask ) they are very valuable ; but it is said that much depends on the ...
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... five daily prayers ; this is an observance which is but little attended to in India . The Numaz is a ready excuse for the absence or idleness of a servant . About ten the Shoom ( supper ) is brought , and the hour of eleven usually ...
... five daily prayers ; this is an observance which is but little attended to in India . The Numaz is a ready excuse for the absence or idleness of a servant . About ten the Shoom ( supper ) is brought , and the hour of eleven usually ...
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... five minutes . The Persians are generally too poor to be fashionable , their dress , therefore , seldom varies , except in the colour of the robes . The Qajjars , however , preside over fashion ; and every thing which is supposed to be ...
... five minutes . The Persians are generally too poor to be fashionable , their dress , therefore , seldom varies , except in the colour of the robes . The Qajjars , however , preside over fashion ; and every thing which is supposed to be ...
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Página 155 - Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow; good grows with her. In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. God shall be truly known; and those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Página 251 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 169 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 232 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground ; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Página 234 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
Página 233 - VII. Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae ; mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet 5 ducere nuda choros, immortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum quae rapit hora diem, frigora mitescunt Zephyris, ver proterit aestas interitura, simul 10 pomifer autumnus fruges effuderit, et mox bruma recurrit iners.
Página 254 - ... be lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms, that external appearances and sensations are illusory, and would vanish into nothing, if the divine energy, which alone sustains them, were suspended but for a moment...
Página 251 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Página 154 - This royal infant, (heaven still move about her !) Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, Which time shall bring to ripeness...
Página 18 - And level pavement. From the arched roof) Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.