Chambers's Repository of Instructing and Amusing Tracts, Volumes 1-3W. and R. Chambers, 1852 - English literature |
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... Persian or Arabian bard acknowledges no check , and spurns the control of what we have been accustomed to consider as correct taste . Yet the wildness of the imaginings , the novelty of the manners , and the unusual ornaments of the ...
... Persian or Arabian bard acknowledges no check , and spurns the control of what we have been accustomed to consider as correct taste . Yet the wildness of the imaginings , the novelty of the manners , and the unusual ornaments of the ...
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... Persian literature ; the Mohammedan princes maintaining a kind of literary rivalship in the patronage of letters , so that to excel in poetry was the surest way to fame and fortune . No expense was spared by ... Persian 14 PERSIAN POETRY .
... Persian literature ; the Mohammedan princes maintaining a kind of literary rivalship in the patronage of letters , so that to excel in poetry was the surest way to fame and fortune . No expense was spared by ... Persian 14 PERSIAN POETRY .
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... Persian language is considered to have suffered little or no corruption as the result of the irruptions of the Tatars , who liberally patronised , instead of discouraging , the literature of nations conquered by their arms . The poet we ...
... Persian language is considered to have suffered little or no corruption as the result of the irruptions of the Tatars , who liberally patronised , instead of discouraging , the literature of nations conquered by their arms . The poet we ...
Contents
THE STRUGGLE IN THE CAUCASUS NO 9 | 9 |
CURIOSITIES OF CRIMINAL LAW 10 | 10 |
A LEGEND OF GHENT 11 | 11 |
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