 In a lofty pavilion of the gardens, one of these basins and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished not with water but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahman, his wives, concubines, and black eunuchs, amounted to...  Glenochel, a descriptive poem - Seite 173von James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 Seiten
...these basons and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished not with water, but with the purest •quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahman,...hundred persons; and he was attended to the field by a guard of twelve thousand horse, whose belts and scymetars were studded with gold." "Our imagination... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 Seiten
...these basons and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished not with water, but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahman,...hundred persons ; and he was attended to the field by a guard of twelve thousand horse, whose belts and scymetars were studded with gold.*9 In a private... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 406 Seiten
...was replenished, not with water, but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio ot' Alula I rah man, his wives, concubines, and black eunuchs, amounted...hundred persons ; and he was attended to the field by a guard of twelve thousand horse, whose belts and scymetars were studded with gold.0 |na private condition,... | |
 | James Forbes - 1815 - 458 Seiten
...climate, was replenished, not with water, but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahma, his wives, concubines, and black eunuchs, amounted...hundred persons; and he was attended to the field by a guard of twelve thousand horse, whose belts and scimetars were studded with gold." We may profit... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 386 Seiten
...basins and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished, not with water, but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahman,...wives, concubines, and black eunuchs, amounted to <i,30O persons; and he was attended to the field by a guard of 12,OOO horse, whose belts and scymeters... | |
 | Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 Seiten
...water, but with the purest quicksilver. " The seraglio of Abdalrahman, his wives, and concubines, and eunuchs, amounted to six thousand three hundred persons ; and he was attended to the field by a guard of twelve thousand horse, whose belts and scimeters were studded with gold. " Our imagination... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1830 - 442 Seiten
...basins and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished, not with water, but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahman,...amounted to six thousand three hundred persons; and he \ras attended to the field by a guard of twelve thousand horse, whose belts and scimitars were studded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 Seiten
...climate, was replenished not with water, but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdulrahman, his wives, concubines, and black eunuchs, amounted to six thousand three hundred persons ; and be was attended to the field by a guard of twelve thousand horse, whose belts and scimitars were studded... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...so delightful in a sultry climate, ira; replenished not with water but with the purest quietsilver. s"% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( persone ; and he was attended to the field by a guard of twelve thousand horse, whose belts anil scimitars... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 Seiten
...these basins and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished not with water but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahman,...hundred persons; and he was attended to the field by a guard of twelve thousand horse, whose belts and scimitars were studded with gold. In a private condition,... | |
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