A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, Etc, 2권W. H. Allen and Company, 1857 - 4페이지 |
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Abbas Abbas Mirza Affghans Alee Khan ancient appearance Arabic Armenian army bazârs believe brick bridge built Bushire called capital caravansary centre Christian common court covered dæmon death distant English European farsakhs Fat,h Alee Shah favour feet Ferdousee figures formerly gardens gate Hijra horse Hosein houses India inhabitants Ispahan Julfa Kajar Kashan Khorassan kind king Koom Kureem Khan ladies land language Mahmoud Mahomedan marble miles minister Mirza monarch moollahs Morier Moslem mosque mountains Nadir Nadir Shah NAKSHI NAKSHI RUSTAM native nearly never night ornamented palace Pasargadae Persepolis Persian PERSIAN LANGUAGE pillars plain possess princes reign residence river rock Rooz round royal ruins Rustam Sassanian sculpture seen Shah Abbas Shah Nameh Shah's shahee Sheeah Sheerauz side snow stands stone supposed Tahmuras TAKHTI JEMSHEED Tehrân throne tion tomâns tomb town traveller trees usually village visited walls women yards Yezdikhaust Zerd
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258 페이지 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
278 페이지 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
21 페이지 - They have but fallen before us: for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers today; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.
165 페이지 - Hyems' chin and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
73 페이지 - Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil : For Saints may do the same things by The Spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do ; And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the Saints and Wicked vary.
384 페이지 - Persian soldiery," says Mr. Binning, " when about to engage in combat, ar accustomed to sing aloud certain passages of the Sháhnúmab, which practice has the effect of inspiring them to absolute fury , as the verses of Homer did the warriors of Greece, or as the Runic lays of the Skalds were wont to animate the fierce Berserkars of Norway.'?
404 페이지 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
260 페이지 - Eye-brows ; and, in fhort, is one of the moft comely Men I ever beheld. The Injury the Sun and Weather have done to his Complexion only gives him a more manly Afpect, His Voice is fo uncommonly loud and ftrong, that he frequent,ly, and without ftraining it, gives Orders to his People at above a hundred Yards Difta;;ce.
435 페이지 - In talent and natural capacity, the Persians are equal to any nation in the world. In good feeling and honesty, and in the higher qualities of man, they would be equally so, were their education and their government favourable to their growth. What is wanted, then, but some strong incentive to reflection ? And if an insignificant work as the one in question can have produced the feelings with which the foregoing letter has been written, what might not the labours of some of the high and mighty in...
264 페이지 - The anecdotes related of Nadir Shah are beyond computation. I may be permitted to repeat one or two, which were lately told me by one whose grandsire had been a soldier in Nadir's army, and had witnessed the sack and massacre of Delhi. When Nadir invaded India, he arrived first at Lahore, where the governor immediately surrendered the city to him, and treated him with princely honours. At night, Nadir, whose only couch, for months past, had been a horse-blanket, with a saddle for a pillow, was conducted...