Word: persian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After all, I am driven back to my Vergil again, you see, for the happiest expression of what I was trying to say. It was these shy allurements and provocations of Omar Khayyam's Persian which led Fitzgerald to many a peerless phrase and made an original poet of him in the very act of translating. I cite this instance merely by way of hint that as a spur to the mind, as an open-sesame to the treasures of our native vocabulary, the study of a living language (for literary, not linguistic, ends) may serve as well as that...
...Aase's Death;" (b) In the Halls of the King of the Dovre Mountains. The Imps are chasing Peer Gynt; Grieg. 8. Wotan's Farewell and Fire-charm, from "Die Walkure," Wagner. 9. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe. 10. Selection, "The Knickerbockers," De Koven. 11. Espana, Waldtenfel. 12. Persian March, Strauss...
...Persian and Jew," by John Rathbone Oliver follows "The Latin Play." It is an exposition of Omar Khayyam's theory of existence as shown in his great poem, the "Rubaiyat"; and the author draws attention to the errors in this doctrine by comparison with that of Isaiah, whom we may regard as the antithesis of Omar in ethical teaching. The article is very well written...
...paper by Havelock Ellis, on "The Ancestry of Genius;" "Persian Poetry." by Sir Edward Strachey; and the extremely picturesque and pathetic sketch of the life of a Japanese dancing girl, written by Lafcadio Hearn, complete the more notable contents of the number. A paper on "Words," by Agnes Repplier, however, should not be forgotten by those who have enjoyed this clever woman's essays in past numbers of the magazine...
...left of the door, the objects are arranged in chronological order, except where their size or the date of their arrival has prevented. Among the finest specimens in the collection are the colored casts of monuments from the Babylonian ruin of Tello and from the ruins of the Persian Susa. There are also casts of Hittite bas-reliefs and inscriptions. In the high cases in the room are casts of Assyrian monuments of the ninth and seventh century B. C. A case to the left of the door contains the original Babylonian clay tablets, while in one to the right...