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The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq - Page 77
by Thomas Moore - 1825 - 6 pages
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Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, Volumes 17-20

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...
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View in the East, with historical and descriptive illustrations

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...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 14

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...
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The Universal Songster, Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete ...

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...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India ...

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...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 10

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...
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Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through Russia, Persia ...

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...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc

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...
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Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan, with Sketches of Anglo ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Young Cadet: Or Henry Delamere's Voyage to India, His Travels in ...

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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