 He announces that the renegade, by deserting his allegiance, led to the breach of truce, and occasioned all these calamities. The Princess is no more ! — and the Khan wishes for peace and friendship between the two nations. The envoy attends with reverence...  The Fortunate Union: A Romance - Page 2251829 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1829 - 590 pages
...friendship between the two nations. The envoy attends with reverence your imperial decision. Emp. — Then strike off the traitor's head, and be it presented...preparatory to his return. (Recites these verses.) i * ' Yexgo, a. specie] of wild-goose (as well as the yuenyang — anas nobilis), is the emblem in... | |
 | 1829 - 586 pages
...friendship between the two nations. The envoy attends with reverence your imperial decision. Emp. — Then strike off the traitor's head, and be it presented...the envoy, preparatory to his return. (Recites these turses.) * ' Yepgo, a species of wild-goose (as well as the yKenyrui^— -ants nobilia), it the cmhlem... | |
 | Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn, William Wallace, Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1836 - 434 pages
...has delivered up the guilty minister, the tidings are received with the same business-like apathy. " Then strike off the traitor's head, and be it presented...princess. Let a fit banquet be got ready for the envoy." These dramas are interspersed with stanzas of poetry, introduced often on the most critical occasions,... | |
 | George Tradescant Lay, Ephraim George Squier - 1843 - 130 pages
...tidings are received with the same business-like apathy. " Then strike off the traitor's head, and be il presented as an offering to the shade of the princess. Let a fit banquet be got ready for the envoy." These dramas are interspersed with stanzas of poetry, introduced often on the most critical occasions,... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1865 - 248 pages
...friendship between the two nations. The envoy attends with reverence your imperial decision. "Emp. — Then strike off the traitor's head, and be it presented...these verses.) " At the fall of the leaf, when the wild -fowl's cry was heard in the recesses of the palace, Sad dreams returned to our lonely pillow... | |
 | 1885 - 486 pages
...of the mournful pipe ;' and the play ends with these verses put into the mouth of the Emperor: — 'At the fall of the leaf, when the wildfowl's cry...the recesses of the palace, sad dreams returned to my lonely pillow.' But the space at our command does not permit us to illustrate at any length this... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 pages
...friendship between the two nations. The envoy attends, with reverence, your imperial decision. Emperor — Then strike off the traitor's head, and be it presented...for the envoy, preparatory to his return. [Recites] — " At the fall of the leaf, when the wild fowl's cry was heard in the recesses of the palace, Sad... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 450 pages
...friendship between the two nations. The envoy attends, with reverence, your imperial decision. Emperor — Then strike off the traitor's head, and be it presented...for the envoy, preparatory to his return. [Recites] — " At the fall of the leaf, when the wild fowl's cry was heard in the recesses of the palace, Sad... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1917 - 454 pages
...friendship between the two nations. The envoy attends, with reverence, your imperial decision. EMPEROR. Then strike off the traitor's head, and be it presented...[Recites these verses. At the fall of the leaf, when the wild fowl's cry was heard in the recesses of the palace, Sad dreams returned to our lonely pillow;... | |
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