Letters from the Caucasus and Georgia: To which are Added, the Account of a Journey Into Persia in 1812, and an Abridged History of Persia Since the Time of Nadir Shah

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J. Murray, 1823 - 414 páginas
 

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Página 103 - Plates. 5s. 130. GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE^ An Inquiry into the Principles of Beauty in ; with an Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Art in Greece. By the EARL OF ABERDEEN, is. *«* The two preceding Works in One handsome VoL, half bound, entitled "ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE,
Página 401 - Caspiae dictae, ingens naturae opus montibus interruptis repente, ubi fores o^ditae ferratis trabibus, subter medias amne diri odoris fluente citraque in rupe castello quod vocatur Cumania communito ad arcendas transitu gentes innumeras, ibi loci terrarum orbe portis discluso, ex adverso maxime Hermasti oppidi Hiberum.
Página 406 - COME, Leila, fill the goblet up, Reach round the rosy wine; Think not that we will take the cup From any hand but thine. A draught like this 'twere vain to seek, No grape can such supply ; It steals its tints from Leila's cheek, Its brightness from her eye.
Página 198 - The immense height to which millet and sesamum will grow, although I have witnessed it myself, I know not how to mention. I am well aware that they who have not visited this country will deem whatever I may say on the subject a Violation of probability.
Página 180 - ... sallary, and a kind of Jerusalem artichokes, which are very good food, with other herbs and roots, found a little to the northward. Their business is to make expiation, not for their own sins only, but for those of others ; and they continue the longer time, in proportion to the number of persons for whom they have engaged to pray. They mark their foreheads with saffron, and have a great veneration for a red cow.
Página 405 - Be thankful, and drain the bowl in the garden ; for in another week the roses will be no more. " Give me such a bowl, O Heaven ! that I may have no after head-ache. " O Heaven! fill the golden cup with ruby wine, and give it to the poor and the distressed. " Those only will find fault with the verses of Hafiz, who are devoid of merit.
Página 118 - Maeotas, were Amazonians. So were all the lonians ; and the Atlantians of Mauritania. They were in general Cuthite colonies from Egypt and Syria : and as they worshipped the Sun, they were called Azones, Amazones, Alazones ; which are names of the same purport ; and have equally a reference to the national object of 77 worship.
Página 400 - tis a voice on Meshed's (1) holy walls ; His fierce Afshars (2) impetuous Nadir calls. From Gebal's mountains, whose rude summits shade Nohavend's (3) dark and melancholy glade ; From fragrant Persis, gemm'd with orient flowers ; From Seistan's mines of gold and palmy bowers ; From thirsty Kerman, and Balsara's strand, Where Susa's lawns to western suns expand, Swells the disastrous sound to Media's vales, Where health on Tabriz (4) breathes with all her gales: To wild Araxes' yet untam'd career,...
Página 400 - Russ, (5) on Neva's banks aghast, Starts at the echoes of the distant blast. Back the dread echoes roll through climes of day ; Kings shrink to dust, and armies fade away ; High Candahar, on...
Página 335 - The pearl of Ceylon peels off; that of the gulph is as firm as the rock upon which it grows ; a'ld though it loses in colour and water one per cent. annually for fifty years, yet it still loses less than that of Ceylon. It ceases after fifty years to lose any thing.

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