"Xxxvii" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hafid, Saqi Namah, couplets 77, 78 for the three names mentioned above. The figure is most familiar to the English reader from Fitzgerald's version, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Boston, 1899, p. 211, xxxvii. See also 'Umar Xayyam ed. Whinfield, London, ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy
... < chapter xxxvii 7 SUNSET > The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out. I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... author of this Apocryphal work, does not hesitate (ch. xxiv) to compare his beloved Wisdom to a garden, in the same rustic images that we find in Canticles; and, on the other side, he reveals none of that elevated appreciation of agriculture which Graetz would have us expect. Sirach (xxxvii. 25) asks sarcastically: ...
— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams
... for assassination. Bonaparte, in the same way, had his secret agents in every country of Europe, without excepting England. Alison (chap. xxxvii. par. 89) says on this matter of Drake that, though the English agents were certainly attempting a counter-revolution, they had no idea of encouraging the assassination of Napoleon, while "England was no match for the French police ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... History of Greece, chap. xxxvii. There is a full and interesting account of the Pythagorean revival in Dr. F. Schwartz's ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
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