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What was intended to be the great work of his life, his Arabic Lexicon, was left unfinished at his death, but was completed by his nephew, Prof. S.L. Poole. L. was regarded as the chief European Orientalist of his day. Poet, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Kirkby Stephen; having taken orders, he was for two years a curate in London, and from 1776 Rector of Blagdon, Somerset, and Prebendary of Wells.
Let our newly awakened powers cry out for unlimited fulfilment in leaf and flower and fruit! The opportuneness of the Baha movement is brought into a bright light by the following extract from a letter to the Master from the great Orientalist and traveller, Arminius Vambéry.
Knowles makes it appear that the whole affair of keeping silence was a mere jest, but we have before seen that it is decidedly meant for a noodle-story. The Orientalist, 1884, p. 136. Crane's Italian Popular Tales, pp. 284-5.
Raske, the Orientalist, who had visited Serampore, was a Professor in the University there.
In the evening the fellah-women gathered round me, while I watched the sun that tinted their cheeks with bronze there were some pretty ones among them, I have painted them in water-colors from memory they poured out their insults upon me in guttural tones, which I unfortunately understood, as I am an Orientalist," he smiled "and in addition to those insults they threw mud at me, a fetid mass of filth.
To these was added for he deserves a sentence to himself an Orientalist of world-wide reputation. All were gathered for the purpose of meeting Chandrapál. By the charm of his manners, by his urbanity, by his brilliant and thought-provoking conversation, the Oriental repaid his host a hundred times over.
He was determined that he would clear the situation this afternoon; the more determined because he was conscious of a feeling odiously resembling fear which had before now held him back from plain dealing with Mildred. Afraid of a woman? It was too ridiculous. Milly, meanwhile, felt herself on firmer ground. This must be Ian's cousin, Maxwell Davison, the Orientalist.
Nay, I would make other men believe that they had written it. They would hire bull-hided self-advertising Englishmen to bellow it abroad. Preachers would found a fresh conduct of life upon it, swearing that it was new and that they had lifted the fear of death from all mankind. Every Orientalist in Europe would patronize it discursively with Sanskrit and Pali texts.
An Oriental visitor was returning from our shores to his native land. "Well," asked the youthful diplomatist who had been told off to show him round, as on the deck of the steamer they shook hands, "what do you now think of England?" "Too much woman," answered the grave Orientalist, and descended to his cabin.
He is a colourist almost as sumptuous as Monticelli, with a precision of vision never attained by the Marseilles rhapsodist. His figures are as delicious as Watteau's or Debucourt's he recalls the latter frequently and as an Orientalist he ranks all but a few.
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