 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...  The Bridal Night; The First Poet; and Other Poems - Page 181by Dugald Moore - 1831 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 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 - Byzantine Empire - 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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English drama - 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... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Epic poetry - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Hartley - Greece - 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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 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... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1832 - 284 pages
...of the Crescent, and tolling afresh the knell of the dynasty of the Ottomans. " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song in the towers of Afrasiab.'' CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION. Correct Views of the Millennium attainable... | |
 | 1832 - 816 pages
...dirge of these forsaken cities. And here the distich of H&fiz 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 Colossac, — if that, indeed,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 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-sone on the towers of Afrasiab.' "—Decline and Fall, iff., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22, page... | |
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