Littell's Living Age, Volume 112Living Age Company Incorporated, 1872 |
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... body of the actor who repre- goes and takes up a handful of it , when sents the martyr of the day , embracing his part is about to require him to throw , him , and , with their little hands , covering in Oriental fashion , dust upon his ...
... body of the actor who repre- goes and takes up a handful of it , when sents the martyr of the day , embracing his part is about to require him to throw , him , and , with their little hands , covering in Oriental fashion , dust upon his ...
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... body , but he is struck down with a stone , and with another stone Hussein , too , is stretched on the ground senseless . Who are these boy - tyrants and persecutors ? They are Ibn - Said , and Shemer and others , the future murderers ...
... body , but he is struck down with a stone , and with another stone Hussein , too , is stretched on the ground senseless . Who are these boy - tyrants and persecutors ? They are Ibn - Said , and Shemer and others , the future murderers ...
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... body of Hussein , that body like a flower , torn by arrows and lances like thorns , Kassem . " Thou sawest Ali - Akber's head severed from his body on the field of battle , and yet thou livedst ! " Arise , obey that which is written of ...
... body of Hussein , that body like a flower , torn by arrows and lances like thorns , Kassem . " Thou sawest Ali - Akber's head severed from his body on the field of battle , and yet thou livedst ! " Arise , obey that which is written of ...
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... body , they carried his head to the castle of Kufa , and the inhu- man Obeidallah ( the governor ) struck him on the ... bodies , full of wounds , and with weapons sticking in them still , are exposed to view ; but around them all are ...
... body , they carried his head to the castle of Kufa , and the inhu- man Obeidallah ( the governor ) struck him on the ... bodies , full of wounds , and with weapons sticking in them still , are exposed to view ; but around them all are ...
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... body death , and sends the head of Hussein to is seen stretched out upon it . A brilliant the children . Sekyna , the Imam's young- caravan enters , with camels , soldiers , ser- est daughter , a child of four years old , vants , and a ...
... body death , and sends the head of Hussein to is seen stretched out upon it . A brilliant the children . Sekyna , the Imam's young- caravan enters , with camels , soldiers , ser- est daughter , a child of four years old , vants , and a ...
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Page 284 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 71 - The other shape, — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either, — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 68 - A nun demure of lowly port; Or sprightly maiden, of Love's court, In thy simplicity the sport Of all temptations; A queen in crown of rubies drest ; A starveling in a scanty vest; Are all, as seems to suit thee best, Thy appellations.
Page 256 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Page 408 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 408 - To rescue Israel from the Roman yoke ; Then to subdue and quell, o'er all the earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored...
Page 68 - To every natural form, rock, fruit, or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with inward meaning.
Page 69 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 73 - By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Page 5 - He traversed the desert of Arabia with a timorous retinue of women and children ; but as he approached the confines of Irak he was alarmed by the solitary or hostile face of the country, and suspected either the defection or ruin of his party. His fears were just: Obeidollah, the governor of Cufa, had...