 | 1828 - 592 páginas
...magnificent empire! — that scene of Persian conquest and Persian glory ! — the land of elephantf and precious stones ! the seat of shawls and kincobs...living in regions that know not the warmth of the smt ? two swine-eating infidels, shaven, impure, walkers on foot, and who, by way of state, travel... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 páginas
...kincobs ! — that paradise sung by poets, celebrated by historians more ancient than Iran itself 1 — at whose boundaries the sun is permitted to rise,...and carouse ! What ! is it so fallen, so degraded a« to be swayed hy two obscure mortals, living in regions that know not the warmth of the sun? two... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1829 - 556 páginas
...Persian glory! — the land of elephants and precious stones I the seat of shawls and kjncobs ! — that paradise sung by poets, celebrated by historians,...than Iran itself! — at whose boundaries the sun is permilted to rise, and around whose majestic mountains, some clad in eternal snows, others in eternal... | |
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... mute, only occasionally saying, ' Allah, Allah ! there is but one Allah!' so wonderfully astonished were we. What? India! that great, that magnificent empire ! — that scene of Persian conquest and Persian glory ! — the land of elephants and precious... 