Word: persian
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Then here are some rugs which I got because I heard that carpets are not at all the thing; they are exactly like the real Persian rugs...
Editor who has charge of the dead and other foreign languages. Are you quite sure about pajama? I thought it meant under - Editor (friend of the oppressed Persian). Nonsense. Don't you suppose a native knows what he's talking about...
Those who recognize the catholicity which the trustees of the Library have shown in the selection of books will be surprised to learn that the poems of the Persian poet, Omar Khayam, are not on its shelves. The poems of Saadi and Hafiz are there, but, notwithstanding the fact that there is an elegant English translation of this astronomer poet, none of his works can be found in the College Library except his Algebra, and a few extracts from his verses published in the North American Review...
This matter is worthy of more than ordinary comment, because Omar is, by all odds, the most advanced thinker among Persian poets, and, though he was little known outside of his own country until about ten years ago, he is now occupying a position in the literary history of the world which a recognition of his merits...
...Nicolas, who has made a literal translation into French, has given a mystical meaning to many of the voluptuous lines of the original; but the English poetical translation by Edward Fitzgerald, which is considered in every way the better, shows the old Persian in the light of an Epicurean and a "Materialist...