"Sabaean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... series of charming poems, inspired by the remarkable places which he visited, and by the incidents of his journey. These 'palm-leaves,' let me say, have a perennial verdure, they are yet as green as when they were gathered and still breathe Sabaean odors—the spicy perfume of the Orient—what the old poet Donne calls 'the almighty balm of the early East.' He is now a traveler in our territory, a region almost without antiquities, but of sufficient interest to attract ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... Don Quixote, "and doth she not of a truth accompany and adorn this greatness with a thousand million charms of mind! But one thing thou wilt not deny, Sancho; when thou camest close to her didst thou not perceive a Sabaean odour, an aromatic fragrance, a, I know not what, delicious, that I cannot find a name for; I mean a redolence, an exhalation, as if thou wert in the ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... closely doth the ivy not enlace The tree where firmly rooted it doth stand, As clasp each other in their warm embrace These lovers, by each other's sweet breath fanned. Sweet flower, of which on India's shore no trace Is, or on the Sabaean ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... well: O'er the rest, ye muses draw a veil! 'Twas the Exhibition year— And everything was nasty, and proportionately dear, Why should ye sing how much I paid for one poor pint of claret— The horrors of my bedroom in a flea-frequented garret— Its non-Sabaean odours—Liliputian devices For washing in a tea-cup—all at "Exhibition prices?" To the mountains, to the mountains, to their snowy peaks I fly! For their pure, primeval freshness, for their solitude I sigh! Past old Dijon and its Buffet, past fair Macon and its wine, Thro' the lime-stone ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling |
