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Allah both in public and private, to praise Allah and to be soothfastin thy speech, for such praise bringeth increase of prosperity, and piety in itself is the best of provision for the next world; even as saith one of the poets,
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None is the cause of all this posher save the Wazir; but, Allah upon thee, O my son, take patience, so haply the Lord may turn to gladness this thy grief and to thy sadness bring complete relief: as quoth one of the poets,
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Even so they were at first, if you will believe that pleasant tale of Socrates, which he told fair Phaedrus under a plane-tree, at the banks of the river Iseus; about noon when it was hot, and the grasshoppers made a noise, he took that sweet occasion to tell him a tale, how grasshoppers were once scholars, musicians, poets,
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But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him: No man can say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets,
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Romanticists and Romanticism by linking Deleuze's philosophy both to one of the central Romantic-era philosophers — Immanuel Kant — and to one of the more philosophical of the British Romantic poets,
The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility 1997
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More than 1,200 years ago one of your great poets,
Remarks By The President At Toast Tokyo ITY National Archives 1996
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But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him: No man can say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets,
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It is significant that the outstanding materialist among American poets,
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins
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Indeed, it is but simple statement of fact to say, that he who rests _utterly_ in his action shall belittle not only whatsoever history has recorded, but all which that poet of poets,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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The city of Shiraz from the beginning until this day has been the seat of religion and especially of poetry because these two eminent poets,
Modern Persia Mooshie G. Daniel
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