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" ... love will fly her home. The fugitives must brave every danger, for revenge, at all times the Bedouin's idol, now becomes the lode-star of his existence. But the Arab lover will dare all consequences. " Men have died and the worms have eaten them,... "
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah - Page 92
by Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1857
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Madinah and Meccah

Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1856 - 514 pages
...at all times the Bedouin's idol, now becomes the lode-star of his existence. But the Arab lover will dare all consequences. "Men have died and the worms have eaten them, but not for love," maybe true in the West; it is false in the East. This is attested in every tale where love,...
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Once a Week

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1874 - 782 pages
..."I am inclined to think 'Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.' Do you remember what Shakspeare says : ' Men have died, and the worms have eaten them; but not for love'?" "Oh, if you are going to quote Shakspeare, I am dumb. He is the prince of nasty little sayings...
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True to her trust; or, 'Womanly past question' [by D.H. Boulger].

Dorothy Henrietta Boulger - 1874 - 292 pages
..." I am inclined to think 'Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle! Do you remember what Shakspeare says : ' Men have died, and the worms have eaten them; but not for love'?" " Oh, if you are going to quote Shakspeare, I am dumb. He is the prince of nasty little sayings...
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Proceedings of the ... Convocation, Volume 13, Part 1876

University of the State of New York - 1876 - 302 pages
...been one of the compilers of the Koran. His monodies on life and love are touchingly sad, yet sweet. Nothing can be more tender, more pathetic, than the use made of lovers' separations and long absences, by the old Arab poets. Whoever reads the Moaallaka of Lubade...
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The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the ..., Volume 4

Charles Anderson Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...at all times the Bedouin's idol, now becomes the lode-star of his existence. But the Arab lover will dare all consequences. " Men have died and the worms...pathetic than the use made of these separations and the long absences by the old Arab poets. Whoever peruses the "Suspended Poem "of Lebid will find thoughts...
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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...at all times the Bedouin's idol, now becomes the lode-star of his existence. But the Antb lover will dare all consequences. " Men have died and the worms...pathetic than the use made of these separations and the long absences by the old Arab poets. Whoever peruses the "Suspended Poem "of Lebid will find thoughts...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Volume 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1893 - 524 pages
...at all times the Badawi's idol, now becomes the lodestar of his existence. But the Arab lover will dare all consequences. " Men have died and the worms...where love, and not ambition, is the groundwork of the narrative.2 And nothing can be more tender, more 1 There is no objection to intermarriage between equal...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 2

David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 pages
...at all times the Bedouin's idol, now becomes the lodestar of his existence. But the Arab lover will dare all consequences. (( Men have died and the worms...pathetic, than the use made of these separations and the long absences by the old Arab poets. Whoever peruses the * Suspended Poem " of Lebid will find...
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Longman's Magazine, Volume 41

Charles James Longman - 1903 - 618 pages
...sighed. ' Then the somebody before was another somebody ? ' ' Yes,' said Merton, turning rather red. ' Men have died and the worms have eaten them, but not for love,' muttered Logan. (To be concluded.) Napoleon's Weird. CHAPTER I. CHARLEROI. IT was nearing the...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Volume 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1906 - 510 pages
...at all times the Badawi's idol, now becomes the lodestar of his existence. But the Arab lover will dare all consequences. " Men have died and the worms...where love, and not ambition, is the groundwork of the narrative.2 And nothing can be more tender, more 1 There is no objection to intermarriage between equal...
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