 Constantine, but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. 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...  The Lusiad: An Epic Poem - الصفحة 419بواسطة Luís de Camões - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 585عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1844
...emperors, was strongly impressed with the silence and desolation which reigned within its precincts. "A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.' "— Decline and Fall, &c., vol. xii. page 24-0. Note 22, page 217, line 11. The bowl of liberty. One... | |
 | P A. Beddome - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...next visit? The august but desolate mansion of a hundred successors of the great Constantine, which, in a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. 731. Did the vicissitudes of human greatness force melancholy reflections on the mind of the sultan... | |
 | Muḥammad (the prophet.) - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...to the august, but desolate, mansion of an hundred successors of the great Constantine ; but which, in a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty....the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afraisab.' "* The historians of the east narrate the exploits of the successive warriors of the house... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 892
...If, as the Persic verses affectingly state, describing the transitory nature of human greatness, " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace,...the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasian, it is no less true that the features of nature have alternated as strikingly, marine inhabitants... | |
 | 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...Greeks, Romans, Goths, have all been swept away, and the lines of Haflz have here been realised : — " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her night-song on the towers of Afrasian." In the neighbourhood of the ruins of the city are a few mud... | |
 | Ernest Frederick Fiske - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...Homer2, and thought upon the probable fate of his own country,) he exclaimed in the words of Firdausi : " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." The death of Mahomet II. happened in the year 1481, when he was preparing to make war at once upon... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...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....hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." 77 Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did tlie victory seem complete, till he was informed of the... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 760
...proceeded to the august, but desolate mansion, of a hundred successors of the great Constantino, but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty....elegant distich of Persian poetry: 'The spider has woven his web in the imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.'... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 770
...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....elegant distich of Persian poetry : 'The spider has woven his web in the imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her walch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.'... | |
 | 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 924
...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....mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian history: 'The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her •watch-song... | |
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