 | 1809 - 572 pages
...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 long, with seventeen... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...but desolate, mansion of an hundred successors of the great Constantine ; but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 564 pages
...but desolate mansion of an hundred successors of the great Constantine ; but which, in a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy...spider has ** wove his web in the Imperial palace j and the " owl * We are obliged to Cantetnir (p. 102.) for the Turkish account of the conversion of... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1823 - 336 pages
...silence and desolation which reigned within its precincts. " A melancholy reflection on the vicissitude-, of human greatness forced itself on his mind, and...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.... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1826 - 622 pages
...but desolate mansion of an hundred sifccessors of the great Constantine, but which, in a fe\v hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy...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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...august but desolate mansion of a hundred successors of the great Constantine, but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy...poetry: " The spider has wove his web in the Imperial pa" lace ; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on " the towers of Afrasiab." Yet his mind was not... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 492 pages
...to a Mussulman and a christian eye. CHAP. been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy LXV I- reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness,...wove his web in the imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her watchsong on the towers of Afrasiab h." His beha- Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 764 pages
...Caesars ; and the often 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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 pages
...emperors, was strongly impressed with the silence and desolation which reigned within its precincts. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human...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.... | |
 | John Hartley - 1831 - 426 pages
...chaunt from age to age 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,... | |
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Constantine ; but which, in a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. 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... 
