Islam in English LiteraturePrinted at the American Press, 1939 - 258 pages |
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Page 65
... notes on the Koran , without which the metaphors , idioms , and allusions would be unintelligible to the foreign ... Note 1 . ḥammad , he says , was to destroy idolatry , The Age of Pope 65.
... notes on the Koran , without which the metaphors , idioms , and allusions would be unintelligible to the foreign ... Note 1 . ḥammad , he says , was to destroy idolatry , The Age of Pope 65.
Page 121
... note , from a passage in Vathek , and forms an interesting example of how one imagination kindles another . There is ... notes of thine - they pierce and pierce ; Tumultuous harmony and fierce ! The use of quotation marks to set off the ...
... note , from a passage in Vathek , and forms an interesting example of how one imagination kindles another . There is ... notes of thine - they pierce and pierce ; Tumultuous harmony and fierce ! The use of quotation marks to set off the ...
Page 171
... notes appended to each of the twelve books , and far exceeding the poem itself in bulk . The notes consist of quotations from travellers ' tales and from such studies of Moslem culture as Sale's and D'Herbelot's ; as well as a great ...
... notes appended to each of the twelve books , and far exceeding the poem itself in bulk . The notes consist of quotations from travellers ' tales and from such studies of Moslem culture as Sale's and D'Herbelot's ; as well as a great ...
Contents
THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | 1 |
THE AGE OF DRYDEN | 19 |
THE AGE OF POPE | 54 |
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