 | 1809 - 572 pages
...the very applicable distich of a Persian poet, who, in dcicribVOL. n. D d ing a similar scene, says, The spider has woven his web in the imperial palace, and the owl has sung her watch song on the towers of Afrasiab. The great gallery is two hundred and twenty feet... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...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 on the towers of Airasiab."" Hisbeha- Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem Greeks/ * complete, till... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1823 - 336 pages
...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 Afrasiab."' — Decline and Fall, &c., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22. The Bowl of Liberty — cup called the Bowl of... | |
 | 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...Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory His beha. seem complete, till he was informed of the fate of Greek£' Constantine; whether he had escaped,... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1826 - 622 pages
...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 Afrasiab." NOTE 26, PAGE 22. The Moor, and all his bands, the Lusian Chief Receiv'd with generous hospitality.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...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 \vatch-song on the towers of Afrasiab."77 Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 764 pages
...quoted, but ever beautiful and 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 - 426 pages
...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 ; 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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 pages
...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 Afraoiab.' "—Decline and Fall, i$*., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22, page 191, col. 2. The bowl ofliberty.... | |
 | Dugald Moore - 1831 - 276 pages
...raven hair Floats on the waters wild, And her last gurgle was a prayer Gasp'd o'er her drowning child ! The spider has woven his web in the imperial palace ; and The owl hath sung her watch-son? on the towers of Afrasiab. DISTICH OF PERSIAN POETRY. A DEAD and melancholy stream, that... | |
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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... 
