 | Lew Wallace - 1893 - 592 pagina’s
...he halted the second time, and in thought of the vanity of human glory, recited: " The spider hath woven his web in the imperial palace ; And the owl...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." In the space before the Church, as elsewhere along the route he had come, the hordes were busy carrying... | |
 | Augustus Warner Williams, Mgrditch Simbad Gabriel - 1896 - 516 pagina’s
...greatness caused him to repeat an elegant distich of Persian poetry : — " The spider has woven his net in the imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." The fifth day after the conquest he consecrated by a formal act the liberty of conscience accorded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 660 pagina’s
...mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : " The spider has wove his web in th« Imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." 77 Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem 3omplete, till he was informed of the fate... | |
 | James Shaw - 1899 - 550 pagina’s
...concentrated, reminds us of the Persian poem, uttered by Mahomet the Second, in the Church of St Sophia—" The spider has woven his web in the imperial palace; and the owl has sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." ' Something of the energy of the man and his capacity... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 688 pagina’s
...forced itself on his mind; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: "The spider has wove his web in the Imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her watch song on the towers of Afrasiab."" Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem complete,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 736 pagina’s
...forced itself on his mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : " The spider hath woven his web in the imperial palace ; and the owl...seem complete, till he was informed of the fate of Constantiue — whether he had escaped, or been [1453 AD] . made prisoner, or had fallen in the battle.... | |
 | Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1905 - 1256 pagina’s
...distich as given in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, runs thus : — " The spider has wove his web in the Imperial Palace, And the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." Page 344, line 28.— For " square " read " building." Page 430, line 4.— For " Jesus " read " Jews."... | |
 | 1907 - 296 pagina’s
...arts of peace. But the land of Afrasiab became a desert, so that men said of it : " The spider hath woven his web in the imperial palace, and the owl...hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." CHAPTER XIX HOW KAI KHOSROO FOUND HIS REST NOW Kai Khosroo had ruled over the land for many long years... | |
 | Harrison Griswold Dwight - 1915 - 604 pagina’s
...Persian distich which has been so often requoted: "The spider has woven his web in the palace of kings, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab." By the sixteenth century little was left of it but a few columns and the ruins of the Bucoleon. The... | |
 | david eugene smite - 1923 - 920 pagina’s
...Turks in 14S3- 7 When Mohammed II, standing on the banks of the Bosporus, repeated the Persian distich, The spider has woven his web in the Imperial palace, And the owl has sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab, he epitomized the situation of Greek culture in... | |
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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 in the Imperial palace; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of... 
