 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
 | Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 1256
...proceeded to the august but desolate mansion of one hundred successors of the great Constantine, but which, in a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty....the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself upon his mind, and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : " ' Now the spider draws the... | |
 | 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...of peace. But the land of Afrasiab became a desert, so that men said of it : " The spider hath woven his web in the imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." CHAPTER XIX HOW KAI KHOSROO FOUND HIS REST NOW Kai Khosroo had ruled over the land for many long years... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 658
...but which, in a few hours, [Moh»m- had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy distich of reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness...the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afraeiab".104 HI. be- Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem comt'o The"* plete,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy dietich of reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatuess forced itself on his mind ; and he repeated an elegant...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab ".i»* Bi* b»- Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem comtothe" plete, till he was... | |
 | Harrison Griswold Dwight - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...Persian distich which has been so often requoted: "The spider has woven his web in the palace of kings, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." By the sixteenth century little was left of it but a few columns and the ruins of the Bucoleon. The... | |
 | Harrison Griswold Dwight - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...Persian distich which has been so often requoted: "The spider has woven his web in the palace of kings, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." By the sixteenth century little was left of it but a few columns and the ruins of the Bucoleon. The... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...the storming of the city are thus briefly but memorably narrated : — "A melancholy reflection upon the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself...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.'... | |
 | Norman Davies - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 1428
...he proceeded to the august but desolate mansion of a hundred successors of the great Constantine ... A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human...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'.... | |
 | Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 732
...other. When Sultan Muhammad, the Conqueror, saw the palace of the Roman Emperors at Constantinople, " a melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human...and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry " supposed to have been composed by Firdausi. Here is the distich : — Parda-darlim kunad bar quasr-i-Qaisar'ankabiit... | |
 | 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 792
...Sophia he proceeded to the deserted palace of one hundred successors of the great Constantine, but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty....the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself upon his mind, as he repeated a distich of Persian poetry : Now the spider draws the curtain in the... | |
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