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... give a history of the career of Mirza Ali Mahommed , a Per- sian religious reformer , the original Bâb , and the founder of Bâbism , of which most people in England have at least heard the name . Bab means gate , the door or gate of ...
... give a history of the career of Mirza Ali Mahommed , a Per- sian religious reformer , the original Bâb , and the founder of Bâbism , of which most people in England have at least heard the name . Bab means gate , the door or gate of ...
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... give notice that the actors are ready and that the tazya is to com- mence . The preacher descends from the sakou , and the actors occupy it . To give a clear notion of the cycle which these dramas fill , we should begin , as on the ...
... give notice that the actors are ready and that the tazya is to com- mence . The preacher descends from the sakou , and the actors occupy it . To give a clear notion of the cycle which these dramas fill , we should begin , as on the ...
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... give way to the Hussein . " Beloved child , what the will of their sacred Head . The women Prophet forbids , that cannot I make and children surround Kassem , sprinkle lawful . " him with rose - water , hang bracelets and Kassem . " I ...
... give way to the Hussein . " Beloved child , what the will of their sacred Head . The women Prophet forbids , that cannot I make and children surround Kassem , sprinkle lawful . " him with rose - water , hang bracelets and Kassem . " I ...
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... give up . Poor fellow ! that was just it ; nobody believed him ; they all laughed at his intentions , though she felt certain he meant what he said . Then she had told him that Philip and she were betrothed lovers ; so of course Philip ...
... give up . Poor fellow ! that was just it ; nobody believed him ; they all laughed at his intentions , though she felt certain he meant what he said . Then she had told him that Philip and she were betrothed lovers ; so of course Philip ...
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... give them one of his quaint ditties , and Margot would laugh till the tears came , as , in a very high key , he bellowed out " Adoo to you Spanish ladies ! adoo to you ladies of Spain ! sang the pathetic history which had for its chorus ...
... give them one of his quaint ditties , and Margot would laugh till the tears came , as , in a very high key , he bellowed out " Adoo to you Spanish ladies ! adoo to you ladies of Spain ! sang the pathetic history which had for its chorus ...
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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...