| Edmund Saul Dixon - Poultry - 1848 - 388 pages
...splendours of this glittering toy, although it does so far — " Outshine the wealth of Onnus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold." THE MUTE SWAN.— (CYONUS OLOR.) THE Swan is, beyond all question, the bird to place, as a finishing... | |
| John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...which he sought. HIGH on a thronu of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised S To that bad eminence : and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond... | |
| George W. Burnap - Women - 1848 - 358 pages
...bloody encounter? Direct your eye to yonder pavilion, decked with more than oriental magnificence, "Where the gorgeous East with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold." There sits woman enthroned as queen, and all this magnificence is but an expression of the new born... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...Milton, book ii. High on a throne of royal state, that far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and oflnd, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sate. Or that, where on her Curls k the public pours, All-bounteous, fragrant grains... | |
| Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...extracts : — 771. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers, on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. 772. The sky is changed ! and such a change ! O Night, And Storm, and Darkness,... | |
| John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...which he sought. IIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl arid gold,/ Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence : and, from despair • Thus high... | |
| Peter Bullions - English language - 1849 - 250 pages
...aid. 3. Happy the man who puts his trust in his Maker. 4. Of night the gloom was dark and dense. 5. Or where the gorgeous east, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric, pearls and ggld. 6. No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets. 7. A transient calm the happy scenes bestow.... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 708 pages
...glorious eminence, that ' throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous east, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold," — as he looked down and beheld the lovely scene which spread beneath, at a summer sunset, the distant... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...the monotone. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Inde, Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand. Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. Methought I heard a voice cry, " Sleep no more !" Macbeth does murder sleep —... | |
| Morning call - 1850 - 618 pages
...of the sultan — all that we read of in the Arabian Nights, is realized in these sumptuous abodes, where " The gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold." Genoa has been called the proud — Constantinople may well claim for herself the title of the magnificent.... | |
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