Islam in English LiteraturePrinted at the American Press, 1939 - 258 pages |
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Page 88
... Moore's " The Trial of Selim the Persian , for Divers High Crimes and Misde- meanors " ( 1748 ) , 2 a defense of Lord Lyttelton's Letters from a Per- sian in England to his Friend at Ispahan . The Selim of the poem is Lyttelton himself ...
... Moore's " The Trial of Selim the Persian , for Divers High Crimes and Misde- meanors " ( 1748 ) , 2 a defense of Lord Lyttelton's Letters from a Per- sian in England to his Friend at Ispahan . The Selim of the poem is Lyttelton himself ...
Page 185
... Moore's romance , the success of which was due , not only to the completeness with which it met the popular demand , but largely to the fact that Moore's young heroes who fight against ogrish tyrants are really patriotic Irishmen in dis ...
... Moore's romance , the success of which was due , not only to the completeness with which it met the popular demand , but largely to the fact that Moore's young heroes who fight against ogrish tyrants are really patriotic Irishmen in dis ...
Page 187
... Moore permits his non - Moslem characters to make the usual criticism of the religion . The Veiled Prophet - a heretic rather than a non - Moslem - in a so- liloquy rivalling that of Voltaire's Mahomet , derides the faith he pretends to ...
... Moore permits his non - Moslem characters to make the usual criticism of the religion . The Veiled Prophet - a heretic rather than a non - Moslem - in a so- liloquy rivalling that of Voltaire's Mahomet , derides the faith he pretends to ...
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THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | 1 |
THE AGE OF DRYDEN | 19 |
THE AGE OF POPE | 54 |
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