| 1831 - 412 pages
...Khas of Delhi on whose fretted comios it is boastfully written in Persian characters of molten gold. " If there be an elysium on earth, " It is this, it is this, it is this !" My new friend was also ready to pourtray " the human face divine" whenever required and... | |
| Robert Elliot - 1833 - 356 pages
...celebrated and very beautiful chamber, wherein Persian characters inscribed on the friese, declare, " That if there be an Elysium on earth, it is this, it is this," has a desolate and uncleanly appearance ; the birds defile it with impunity ; ragged curtains are hanging... | |
| 1848 - 780 pages
...love on till they die ! One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss; And, oh ! if there be an Elysium on Earth It is this,— it is this I This was a final evolution ; and my poor heart, which had stood up manfully against every previous... | |
| Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...love on till they die. One hour of passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And, oh, if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this. GIVE ME A FACE THAT MAKES SIMPLICITY A GRACE. (Ben Jonson.) STILL to be neat, still to be dressed As... | |
| Asia - 1834 - 624 pages
...beautiful feature to the scene. It is well known that the line, quoted by Mr. Moore, in Lalla Rookh, — Oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this! — is to be found in the audience-chamber of the King of Delhi, and though the glory of the Moghuls... | |
| 1834 - 784 pages
...that epicurean and careless turn of mind so strikingly expressed in these lines of Lallu Rookh — " Oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this ! it is this !" which verses, by the by, are enough to convict him of downright plagiarism and robbery ; for they... | |
| Arthur Conolly - Asia - 1834 - 460 pages
...! " Ugger Ferdose bur roo-e xumeen ust, liumeen ust, 'vo humeen ust, 'vo It it nice it. ust!" "And if there be an Elysium on earth, it is this, it is this ! Yet ah ! lord of my soul, what was Neshaboore !" The commendations bestowed upon this valley, set... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pages
...love on till they die ! One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this. 'Twas not the air, 'twas not the words, But that deep magic in the chords And in the lips, that gave... | |
| Emma Roberts - British - 1835 - 998 pages
...beautiful feature to the scene. It is well known that the line, quoted by Mr. Moore, in Lalla Rookh, — Oh! if there be an Elysium on earth. It is this, it is this ! — is to be found in the audience-chamber of the King of Delhi ; and though the glory of the Moghuls... | |
| Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - English fiction - 1836 - 290 pages
...The palace is named the Peacock Throne, and'the audience-chamber said to be that described as — ' Oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this— it is this !' and certainly both that and the luxurious gardens which appertain to it, deserve all that can be... | |
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