For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Interpretation
The quote evokes a nostalgic sense of an idealized time during the reign of Haroun Alraschid, symbolizing a golden age.
This quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson refers to the legendary caliph Haroun Alraschid, representing a period of prosperity, culture, and enlightenment in the Islamic Golden Age. Through this reference, Tennyson captures a sense of longing for a time regarded as the pinnacle of civilization and cultural achievement, highlighting themes of nostalgia and the fleeting nature of greatness.
In practice
In a discussion about cultural achievements, one might reference this quote to illustrate the ideal of a golden age.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_ But spring, a new comer,_x000D_ A spring rich and strange,_x000D_ Shall make the winds blow_x000D_ Round and round,_x000D_ Thro' and thro',_x000D_ Here and there,_x000D_ Till the air_x000D_ And the ground_x000D_ Shall be fill'd with life anew.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child.
Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.
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