 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 sider
...in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness, forced itself on his mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of 'Persian pocty : " The spider has wove his "web in the Imperial palace; and the owl hath sung her "watch-song... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 558 sider
...a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness, forced itself on his mind ; and...spider has " wove his web in the, Imperial palace j and the " owl * We Ere obliged to Cantemir (p. 1OC.) for the Turkish account of the -conversion of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 sider
...greatness, forced itself on his mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : " The spi" der has wove his web in the Imperial palace ; and the " owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afra« si ab77." Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory the seem complete, till he was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 458 sider
...a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind ; and...the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab."h Hisbeha- Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory vinurtothe . .... r- ife r+... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1826 - 628 sider
...a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind : and...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." NOTE 26, PACE 22. The Moor, and all his bands, the Lusian Chief Receivd wilh generous hospitality.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 sider
...in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness, forced itself on his mind ; and...in the Imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her \vatch-song on the towers of Afrasiab."77 Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 sider
...in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind; and...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... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 764 sider
...Caesars ; and the often quoted, but ever beautiful and feeling distich of Hafiz flowed from his lips: " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace...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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 sider
...silence and desolation which reigned within its precincts. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind, and...the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afraoiab.' "—Decline and Fall, i$*., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22, page 191, col. 2. The bowl ofliberty.... | |
 | John Hartley - 1831 - 426 sider
...chaunt from age to age the dirge of these forsaken cities. And here the distich of Hafiz is most true : The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace...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... | |
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Constantine, but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. 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... 
