 Hope, that glorious eminence, that " throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...  Herodotus - Page 420by Herodotus, William Beloe - 1831 - 489 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 440 pages
...seats being Mount Hope,* that "throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, Or where the gorgeous east, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pomp and gold. " In the latter part of March, 1621, an event occurred which evinced alike the promptitude... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...glorious eminence, that " throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold," — with fire, the slanting beams streaming across the waters, the broad plains, the island groups,... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1927 - 200 pages
...epic scene where "High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormuz or of Ind, Or where the gorgeous east with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearls and gold, Satan exalted sat." and he closes his own description with the fine parody, "High... | |
 | 1928 - 922 pages
...urged me so keen. t Mercy colleagues with justice. > . n Spring and autumn here Dance hand in hand. • The gorgeous East, with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. Wisdom in discourse with her [Eve] Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows ; Authority and reason... | |
 | 1878 - 612 pages
...Peru, but also in the still more gainful traffic which was carried on beyond the Cape ot Storms — ' where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.' Vasco de Gama made his first voyage in 1497. It was not till 1591 that English ships passed the Cape,... | |
 | 1907 - 624 pages
...riches are in the intellects and the hearts of its people. and all the wealth “of Ormus or of md, or where the gorgeous East with richest hand showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,” would he but a poor substitute for the power to create and to enjoy. Let our workingmen seek wealth... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...arbitrarily. 2. 1 High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Inde, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, 5 Satan exalted sat . . . 15 rising; 25 dignity; etc. Compare Nos 71, 72, 73, 75, 79 ; further, on... | |
 | David Quint - 1993 - 448 pages
...from the most precious materials in nature, far outdoes the wealth and splendor of an Oriental despot, "where the gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold" (Z.3-4).2 Barbaric riches ("ope barbarica") from the East fill up Antony's war chest. The wealth at... | |
 | Philip R. Hardie - 1999 - 412 pages
...PL 2.1-4, where Satan is depicted on a throne 'which far / outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind / or where the gorgeous East with richest hand / showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold'. The OED quotes this as the earliest instance of "barbaric" in the sense 'pertaining or proper to barbarians... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 424 pages
...of the Qto. 240. gorgeous East] STEEVENS: Milton has transplanted this into Paradise Lost, II, 3 : ' Or where the gorgeous East [with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.' A continuation of the quotation, which Steevens does not give, shows that the ' East' of Shakespeare... | |
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