gulistans

Updated: July 4, 2025

Sometimes in a single note he has given us the result of the study of years; or, to speak metaphorically, 'he has ransacked a thousand Gulistans, and has condensed all his fragrant booty into a single drop of otto'." "But was not Gibbon an enemy to the Christian faith?"

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Oh, he is a wonderful writer! his power of condensation is admirable; the lore of the whole world is to be found in his pages. Sometimes in a single note he has given us the result of the study of years; or, to speak metaphorically, “he has ransacked a thousand Gulistans, and has condensed all his fragrant booty into a single drop of otto.’” ‘But was not Gibbon an enemy to the Christian faith?’

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Oh, he is a wonderful writer! his power of condensation is admirable; the lore of the whole world is to be found in his pages. Sometimes in a single note he has given us the result of the study of years; or, to speak metaphorically, "he has ransacked a thousand Gulistans, and has condensed all his fragrant booty into a single drop of otto." 'But was not Gibbon an enemy to the Christian faith?

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Seraglios, divans, bulbuls, Gulistans, Zuleikas, and other oriental properties deluged English poetry for a time, and then subsided; even as the tide of moss-troopers, sorcerers, hermits, and feudal castles had already had its rise and fall. But there was a deeper reason for the impression made by Byron's poetry upon his contemporaries. He laid his finger right on the sore spot in modern life.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson