The rose garden of Persia . The softest and the richest language in theworld is the Persian: it is so peculiarly adaptedto the purposes of poetry, that it is acknow-ledged there have been more poets produced mPersia than in all the other nations of Europe >,. ^H-- « ->^^ *i INTRODUOTIOS. r together: yet, except Sadi and Hafiz, and, it maybe, Ferdusi, there are few whose names even areknown to the general English reader; and the toocommon impression is, that there exists a great mo-notony m their verge, both as to sound and -sense. ,1/ This is so far from being the case, that there is,:
The rose garden of Persia . The softest and the richest language in theworld is the Persian: it is so peculiarly adaptedto the purposes of poetry, that it is acknow-ledged there have been more poets produced mPersia than in all the other nations of Europe >,. ^H-- « ->^^ *i INTRODUOTIOS. r together: yet, except Sadi and Hafiz, and, it maybe, Ferdusi, there are few whose names even areknown to the general English reader; and the toocommon impression is, that there exists a great mo-notony m their verge, both as to sound and -sense. ,1/ This is so far from being the case, that there is,: perhaps, in no poetry so much variety, both in styleyy and subject, as in the musical and expressive Per-\ sian. Sir William Jones, that great authority andâ ^ competent judge not only in Oriental beauties ofI language but ia all matters of taste, has justlypronounced, that the verse of the East isârich ;tin forcible expressions, in bold metaphors, in sen- Atiments full of fire, and in descriptions animated wwith the most lively colouring. J This secret treasure has, however, seldom been T^ ti sought, except by the learned; and the idea that A\ it belonged exclusively to that class has deterred Jmany from endeavouring to understand it, and»TÂ
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