Lalla Rookh

WITH SIXTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY JOHN TENNIEL, ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL; AND FIVE ORNAMENTAL PAGES OF PERSIAN DESIGN BY T. SULMAN, JUN. EN...

Sir William Ouseley, another high authority, in giving his testimony to the same effect, thus notices an exception to the general accuracy for which he gives me credit:—“Dazzled...

“Nor think ’tis only the gross Spirits, warm’d “With duskier fire and for earth’s medium form’d, “That run this course;—Beings, the most divine, “Thus deign through dark mortali...

“Ha, my fair Priestess!”—thus, with ready wile, The’ impostor turn’d to greet her—“thou, whose smile “Hath inspiration in its rosy beam “Beyond the’ Enthusiast’s hope or Prophet...

Thus memory draws from delight, ere it dies, An essence that breathes of it many a year; Thus bright to my soul, as ’twas then to my eyes, Is that bower on the banks of the calm...

Nor less in number, though more new and rude In warfare’s school, was the vast multitude That, fir’d by zeal, or by oppression wrong’d, Round the white standard of the’ impostor...

“For _me_—I too must die—but not like these “Vile, rankling things, to fester in the breeze; “To have this brow in ruffian triumph shown, “With all death’s grimness added to its...

Her first fond hope of Eden blighted, Now among AFRIC’S lunar Mountains,[172] Far to the South the PERI lighted; And sleek’d her plumage at the fountains Of that Egyptian tide—w...

For many days after their departure from Lahore, a considerable degree of gloom hung over the whole party. LALLA ROOKH, who had intended to make illness her excuse for not admit...

Fiercely he broke away, nor stopp’d, Nor look’d—but from the lattice dropp’d Down ’mid the pointed crags beneath, As if he fled from love to death. While pale and mute young HIN...

The day is lowering—stilly black Sleeps the grim wave, while heaven’s rack, Dispers’d and wild, ’twixt earth and sky Hangs like a shatter’d canopy. There’s not a cloud in that b...

She, too, while gazing on those eyes That sink into her soul so deep, Forgets all fears, all miseries, Or feels them like a wretch in sleep, Whom fancy cheats into a smile, Who...

Oh! ’tis not, HINDA, in the power Of Fancy’s most terrific touch To paint thy pangs in that dread hour— Thy silent agony—’twas such As those who feel could paint too well, But n...

Hence is it, too, that NOURMAHAL, Amid the luxuries of this hour, Far from the joyous festival, Sits in her own sequester’d bower, With no one near, to soothe or aid, But that i...

They had now begun to ascend those barren mountains, which separate Cashmere from the rest of India; and, as the heats were intolerable, and the time of their encampments limite...

This resolution of Eblis not to acknowledge the new creature, man, was, according to Mahometan tradition, thus adopted:—“The earth (which God had selected for the materials of h...

“Il amusa pendant deux mois le peuple de la ville de Nekhscheb, en faisant sortir toutes les nuits du fond d’un puits un corps lumineux semblable à la Lune, qui portoit sa lumiè...

p. 156.—_The Banyan Hospital._—“This account excited a desire of visiting the Banyan Hospital, as I had heard much of their benevolence to all kinds of animals that were either...

p. 215.—_The pathetic measure of Nava._—“Last of all she took a guitar, and sung a pathetic air in the measure called Nava, which is always used to express the lamentations of a...

“The roses of the Jinan Nile, or Garden of the Nile (attached to the Emperor of Marocco’s palace), are unequalled, and mattresses are made of their leaves for the men of rank to...