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At last, quite weary’d out and desperate, I fled over the Mountains, and after wandering about in the Disguise of a poor Dervise, which is the Habit I have on, by means of which I pass’d undiscover’d to this Place, in which I chose to reside, and have liv’d five whole Years unmolested, I got my Bread by begging in the adjacent City and
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A romantic lover is a strange idolater, who sometimes cares not out of what log he frames the object of his adoration; at least, if nature has given that object any passable proportion of personal charms, he can easily play the Jeweller and Dervise in the Oriental tale,18 and supply her richly, out of the stores of his own imagination, with supernatural beauty, and all the properties of intellectual wealth.
Waverley 2004
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The Sultan persisted, the foundations of the tomb were laid bare, and in a cavity skillfully left among them was found -- not a burning Sultan, but a Dervise.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various
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A romantic lover is a strange idolater, who sometimes cares not out of what log he frames the object of his adoration; at least, if nature has given that object any passable proportion of personal charms, he can easily play the Jeweller and Dervise in the Oriental tale, and supply her richly, out of the stores of his own imagination,
The Waverley 1877
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Among the choruses you will find a “Dervise Chorus,” a capital bait for a mixed public.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Vol. 1 of 2 Wallace, Lady 1866
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Full soon, 'replied the Dervise,' could I cross over
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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They glitter brightly enough to deceive the wisest and most cautious, and we garner them up in the most secret caskets of our hearts; but are they not like the coins which the Dervise gave the merchant in the story?
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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They glitter brightly enough to deceive the wisest and most cautious, and we garner them up in the most secret caskets of our hearts; but are they not like the coins which the Dervise gave the merchant in the story?
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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They glitter brightly enough to deceive the wisest and most cautious, and we garner them up in the most secret caskets of our hearts; but are they not like the coins which the Dervise gave the merchant in the story?
John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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They glitter brightly enough to deceive the wisest and most cautious, and we garner them up in the most secret caskets of our hearts; but are they not like the coins which the Dervise gave the merchant in the story?
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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