Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... Arabian literature were remarkable for sweet- ness and simplicity of style ; and the diction as- cribed as a general defect of eastern composi- tion , applies merely to its modern and degraded state . " The English reader will perhaps ...
... Arabian literature were remarkable for sweet- ness and simplicity of style ; and the diction as- cribed as a general defect of eastern composi- tion , applies merely to its modern and degraded state . " The English reader will perhaps ...
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... Arabian poetry and language had obtained considerable excel- lence ; and from the age of Lebid , a poet contem- porary with Mohammed , to the extinction of the Khaliphat by the Tartars in the 656th year of the Hegira , the compositions ...
... Arabian poetry and language had obtained considerable excel- lence ; and from the age of Lebid , a poet contem- porary with Mohammed , to the extinction of the Khaliphat by the Tartars in the 656th year of the Hegira , the compositions ...
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... Arabian DE- SERTED VILlage . ” Those dear abodes which once contain'd the fair , Amidst Mitata's wilds I seek in vain , Nor towers , nor tents , nor cottages are there , But scatter'd ruins , and a silent plain . The proud canals that ...
... Arabian DE- SERTED VILlage . ” Those dear abodes which once contain'd the fair , Amidst Mitata's wilds I seek in vain , Nor towers , nor tents , nor cottages are there , But scatter'd ruins , and a silent plain . The proud canals that ...
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... Arabian women , in order to give the veins of their hands and arms a more brilliant appearance , to make slight punctures along them , and to rub into the incisions a blue powder , which they renew occasionally , as it happens to wear ...
... Arabian women , in order to give the veins of their hands and arms a more brilliant appearance , to make slight punctures along them , and to rub into the incisions a blue powder , which they renew occasionally , as it happens to wear ...
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... Arabian poe- try , are , likewise , to be found in their prose writings , produced during the same period . The Arabian Tales , or the Thousand and One Nights , are said , by those who are judges of the original , to be frequently ...
... Arabian poe- try , are , likewise , to be found in their prose writings , produced during the same period . The Arabian Tales , or the Thousand and One Nights , are said , by those who are judges of the original , to be frequently ...
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