Biographical Preface. Omar Khayyam's Grave. Omar Khayyam's Life. Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. Life of Jami. Jami's Salaman and Absal. Appendix. Agamemnon. Euphranor. Polonius. Essays on Crabbe (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...I laugh'd, and said I remembered something like it had occurr'd, though not to that umbrella-point, which I thought was a theatrical, or Louis Philippe Burlesque on the affair. And I asked Euphranor " what he had to say in defence of the Tournament"? 6l __==== EUPHRANOR. 257 "Nothing at all," he replied. "It teas a silly thing, and fit to be laughed at for the very reason that it was a sham, as Lyeion says. As Digby himself tells us," he went on, taking the Book, and rapidly turning over the leaves--" Here it is "--and he read: "' The error that leads men to doubt of this first proposition'--that is, you know, that Chivalry is not a thing past, but, like all things of Beauty, eternal--' the error that leads men to doubt of this first proposition consists of their supposing that Tournaments, steel Panoply, and Coat arms, and Aristocratic institutions, are essential to Chivalry; whereas, these are, in fact, only accidental attendants upon it, subject to the influence of Time, which changes all such things.'" "I suppose," said Lyeion, "your man--whatever his name is--would carry us back to the days of King Arthur, and the Seven Champions, whenever they were--that one used to read about when a Child? I thought Don Quixote had put an end to all that long ago." "Well, he, at any rate," said Euphranor, "did not depend on fine Accoutrement for his Chivalry." "Nay," said I, "but did he not believe in his rusty armour--perhaps even the paste-board Visor he fitted to it--as impregnable as the Cause" "And some old Barber's bason as the Helmet of Mam-brino," interposed Lyeion "And his poor Rocinante not to be surpass'd by the...