The World's Great Classics, Volume 31Colonial Press, 1899 |
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Page iii
... beautiful and artistic , the memory of great deeds and days of chivalry . We seem almost to smell the fragrance of the rose - gardens of Tus and of Shiraz , and to hear the knight - errants tell of war and of love . There are other ...
... beautiful and artistic , the memory of great deeds and days of chivalry . We seem almost to smell the fragrance of the rose - gardens of Tus and of Shiraz , and to hear the knight - errants tell of war and of love . There are other ...
Page vi
... beautiful flowers which had blossomed in the fancy of his people . As he has draped the figures in his great epic , so has an admiring posterity draped his own person . His fortune has been inter- woven with the fame of that Mahmud of ...
... beautiful flowers which had blossomed in the fancy of his people . As he has draped the figures in his great epic , so has an admiring posterity draped his own person . His fortune has been inter- woven with the fame of that Mahmud of ...
Page vii
... beautiful elegy upon the death of his only son ; a curious intermingling of his personal woes with the history of his heroes . A cheerful vigor runs through it all . He praises the delights of wine - drinking , and does not despise the ...
... beautiful elegy upon the death of his only son ; a curious intermingling of his personal woes with the history of his heroes . A cheerful vigor runs through it all . He praises the delights of wine - drinking , and does not despise the ...
Page viii
... beautiful in nature- a sense of the real worth of certain things and the worthlessness of the Ego . Resignation to what is man's evident fate ; doing well what every day brings to be done - this viii LITERATURE OF PERSIA.
... beautiful in nature- a sense of the real worth of certain things and the worthlessness of the Ego . Resignation to what is man's evident fate ; doing well what every day brings to be done - this viii LITERATURE OF PERSIA.
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... beautiful in the passage which may be paraphrased thus : Zephyr thro ' thy locks is straying , Stealing fragrance , charms displaying ; Should it pass where Hafiz lies , From his conscious dust would rise , Flowrets of a thousand dyes ...
... beautiful in the passage which may be paraphrased thus : Zephyr thro ' thy locks is straying , Stealing fragrance , charms displaying ; Should it pass where Hafiz lies , From his conscious dust would rise , Flowrets of a thousand dyes ...
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