The Quarterly Review, Volume 211William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1909 |
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... Shahnama is told in the land of its birth is probably or demonstrably ficti- ts ; but Firdausi himself , as garrulous about his Sources and methods as Homer is reticent , has left us large number of facts whose authenticity is above ...
... Shahnama is told in the land of its birth is probably or demonstrably ficti- ts ; but Firdausi himself , as garrulous about his Sources and methods as Homer is reticent , has left us large number of facts whose authenticity is above ...
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... Shahnama should be in a fair way to claim as well one of the two complete metrical translations . Mr A. G. Warner , whom his brother describes as the senior partner in the task unhappily died before the publication of the first volume ...
... Shahnama should be in a fair way to claim as well one of the two complete metrical translations . Mr A. G. Warner , whom his brother describes as the senior partner in the task unhappily died before the publication of the first volume ...
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... Shahnama goes back , in its fact , a good deal more than nine hundred years ; literary birth took place some four centuries earlier , near the end of the great Sasanian empire - that Persian empire which maintained itself so long on ...
... Shahnama goes back , in its fact , a good deal more than nine hundred years ; literary birth took place some four centuries earlier , near the end of the great Sasanian empire - that Persian empire which maintained itself so long on ...
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... Shahnama Wachieved . Firdausi was born , apparently , in 935 A.D. From the numerous statements he himself in different parts of the Shahnama , s compiled ; and it was by another native of the makes about his age it seems that he took up ...
... Shahnama Wachieved . Firdausi was born , apparently , in 935 A.D. From the numerous statements he himself in different parts of the Shahnama , s compiled ; and it was by another native of the makes about his age it seems that he took up ...
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... Shahnama , like its source , comprises the whole ( ~ Persian history , from the earliest mythical times , whe kings reigned for over a thousand years each , to the Arai invasion and the death of Yazdagird III in 652 a.d. I consists of ...
... Shahnama , like its source , comprises the whole ( ~ Persian history , from the earliest mythical times , whe kings reigned for over a thousand years each , to the Arai invasion and the death of Yazdagird III in 652 a.d. I consists of ...
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