 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 - Page 429by Luís de Camões - 1826 - 585 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...august, but desolate, mansion of an hundred successors of the great Constantine ; but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A...mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of 'Persian pocty : " The spider has wove his "web in the Imperial palace; and the owl hath sung her "watch-song... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 558 pages
...august but desolate mansion of an hundred successors of the great Constantine ; but which, in a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A...spider has " wove his web in the, Imperial palace j and the " owl * We Ere obliged to Cantemir (p. 1OC.) for the Turkish account of the -conversion of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...greatness, forced itself on his mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : " The spi" der has wove his web in the Imperial palace ; and the " owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afra« si ab77." Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory the seem complete, till he was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 458 pages
...gust, but desolate, mansion of a hundred successors of the great Constantine ; but which, in a few hours, had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A...the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab."h Hisbeha- Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory vinurtothe . .... r- ife r+... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English drama - 1823 - 336 pages
...silence and desolation which reigned within its precincts. " A melancholy reflection on the vicissitude-, of human greatness forced itself on his mind, and...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab."' — Decline and Fall, &c., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22. The Bowl of Liberty — cup called the Bowl of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...august, but desolate, mansion of a hundred successors of the great Constantine ; but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A...in the Imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her \vatch-song on the towers of Afrasiab."77 Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...the august but desolate mansion of a hundred successors of the great Constantine, but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A...poetry: " The spider has wove his web in the Imperial pa" lace ; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on " the towers of Afrasiab." Yet his mind was not... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 492 pages
...to a Mussulman and a christian eye. CHAP. been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy LXV I- reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness,...hath sung her watchsong on the towers of Afrasiab h." His beha- Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory GreeVs! thC seem complete, till he... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 764 pages
...Caesars ; and the often quoted, but ever beautiful and feeling distich of Hafiz flowed from his lips: " The spider has wove his web in the imperial palace...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." The fate of Constantine was here announced to him, the body being recognised by the golden eagles embroidered... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1831 - 510 pages
...emperors, was strongly impressed with the silence and desolation which reigned within its precincts. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human...the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afraoiab.' "—Decline and Fall, i$*., vol. xii. p. 240. Note 22, page 191, col. 2. The bowl ofliberty.... | |
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