"Hyrcan" Quotes from Famous Books
... four quarters of the earth they come To kiss this shrine, this mortal breathing saint The Hyrcanian desert, and the vasty wilds Of wide Arabia, are as thoroughfares now, For princes to come view fair Portia; The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head Spits in the face of heaven is no bar To stop the foreign spirits; but they come As o'er a ... — Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson |