...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...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab. I paid a visit to the city of Colossae — if that, indeed, may be called a visit, which left us in...

...waters wild, And her last gurgle was a prayer Gasp'd o'er her drowning child ! The spider has woven his web in the imperial palace ; and The owl hath sung her watch-son? on the towers of Afrasiab. DISTICH OF PERSIAN POETRY. A DEAD and melancholy stream, that...

...from age to age the 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...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." ' I paid a visit to the city of Colossac, — if that, indeed, may be called a visit, which left us...

...the waning glories 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 only...

...Byzantine emperors, was strongly improved with the silence and desolation which nl within its precincts. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human...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...

...emperors, was strongly impressed with the silence and desolation which reigned within its precincts. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human...elegant distich of Persian poetry: " The spider has wove Ms web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.' "—Decline...

...proceeded to the 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 reflexion on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself upon his mind, and he repeated an elegant...

...Plantagenet! may the mournful distich of Persian poetry soon be applicable to you. ' The spider hath wove his web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.'" * * * * * * * * The air of this room seems as if it would suffocate me. I will go forth and breathe...

...description of the marbles, jaspers, and porphyries, employed in the construction of r^ned Wlthm lte Panels. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.' " — Decline and Fall, if«., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22, page 191, col. 2. The bowl of liberty. One...

...but desolate, mansion of the great Constantine, when, according to Gibbon, a melancholy reflection forced itself on his mind, and he repeated an elegant...the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiah." On the towers near the sea of Marmora are the following inscriptions : " This tower, which...