 A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind, and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: 'The spider has wove his web in the Imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of...  Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ... - Page 134by Bayard Taylor - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1823 - 336 pages
...repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : ' The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab."' — Decline and Fall, &c., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22. The Bowl of Liberty — cup called the Bowl of... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1826 - 622 pages
...repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." NOTE 26, PAGE 22. The Moor, and all his bands, the Lusian Chief Receiv'd with generous hospitality.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: " The spider has wove his web in the Imperial pa" lace ; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on " the towers of Afrasiab." Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory His beha. seem complete, till he was informed of... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 764 pages
...feeling distich of Hafiz flowed from his lips: " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace ; And the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." The fate of Constantine was here announced to him, the body being recognised by the golden eagles embroidered... | |
 | John Hartley - 1831 - 424 pages
...cities. And here the distich of Hafiz is most true : The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace ; And the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab. I paid a visit to the city of Colossae—if that, indeed, may be called a visit, which left us in some... | |
 | 1832 - 816 pages
...And here the distich of H&fiz is most true: ' " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace ; And the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." ' I paid a visit to the city of Colossac, — if that, indeed, may be called a visit, which left us... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1834 - 512 pages
...repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: " The spider has wove Ms web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.' "—Decline and Fall, «fc., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22, page 191, col. 2. The bowl of liberty. One... | |
 | 1834 - 532 pages
...repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry :— ' The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.' "—Gibbon. The conflicting statements of the Greek and Turkish historians render it difficult to form... | |
 | Plantagenet - 1835 - 950 pages
...of Persian poetry soon be applicable to you. ' The spider hath wove his web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.'" * * * * * * * * The air of this room seems as if it would suffocate me. I will go forth and breathe... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1836 - 472 pages
...repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: "The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.' " — Decline and Fall, if«., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22, page 191, col. 2. The bowl of liberty. One... | |
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