The Warner Library, Volumen2Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer Warner Library Company, 1917 |
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... whole Arabic literatúre . Though it has produced some prose writers of valve , writing , as an art to charm and to please , has always sought the measured cadence of poetry or the unmeasured symmetry of rhymed prose . Its first lispings ...
... whole Arabic literatúre . Though it has produced some prose writers of valve , writing , as an art to charm and to please , has always sought the measured cadence of poetry or the unmeasured symmetry of rhymed prose . Its first lispings ...
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... personality per- vades the whole poem . He describes nature as he finds it , with little of the imaginative , " in dim grand outlines of a picture which must be filled up by the reader , guided only by 666 ARABIC LITERATURE.
... personality per- vades the whole poem . He describes nature as he finds it , with little of the imaginative , " in dim grand outlines of a picture which must be filled up by the reader , guided only by 666 ARABIC LITERATURE.
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... whole tone rings out a solemn note , which is even in his lighter moments grave and serious , -as existence itself was for those sons of the desert , who had no settled habitation , and who , more than any one , depended upon the bounty ...
... whole tone rings out a solemn note , which is even in his lighter moments grave and serious , -as existence itself was for those sons of the desert , who had no settled habitation , and who , more than any one , depended upon the bounty ...
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... whole series of poems , which were at a later time put in the form of collections and called ' Diwans . ' Some of these poets have left us as many as four hundred verses . Such collections were made by grammarians and antiquarians of a ...
... whole series of poems , which were at a later time put in the form of collections and called ' Diwans . ' Some of these poets have left us as many as four hundred verses . Such collections were made by grammarians and antiquarians of a ...
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... whole , who is none other than Hariri . Wearied at last with his life of travel , debauch , and deception , Abu Zeid retires to his native city and becomes an ascetic , thus to atone in a measure for his past sins . The whole might be ...
... whole , who is none other than Hariri . Wearied at last with his life of travel , debauch , and deception , Abu Zeid retires to his native city and becomes an ascetic , thus to atone in a measure for his past sins . The whole might be ...
Términos y frases comunes
Acharnians Arabic Aristophanes Aristotle Arnold Arthurian legend Aucassin Averroës Avesta beautiful benefits will ye bird body called century comedy cried dead dear death Dubricius earth English Euripides eyes fair faith father feel Fourchambault friends Gaston Paris genius German German's fatherland hand Haoma hast hath heard heart heaven holy honor horse intellectual intelligence King Arthur land Laplace Layamon learned light literary literature live look Lord LORD'S benefits LUDOVICO ARIOSTO Marcus Aurelius matter Medoro mind nature never Nicolette night noble o'er Orlando Orlando Furioso passed philosopher Phosphorists poem poet poetic poetry praise prose Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan Sir Mordred smelling-salts song soul speak spirit sweet sword tell thee things thought took Translation unto verse voice Walpurga wife word Yasna ye ungratefully deny young youth Yudhisthira
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Página 1165 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 877 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 1166 - Certainly there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Página 877 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 1173 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Página 1176 - ... in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia, 'That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad; whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.
Página 987 - Away with cant, and let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone.
Página 1174 - ... they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except (to make themselves capable thereof) they raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience.
Página 1168 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 1171 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.