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[probably] James Murphy

 

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[probably] James Murphy : [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sanscrit paragraph which you found t'other morning in Murphy's "Portugal," and which you will like to possess: -- '"From whose splendid virtues, the great men, who delight to sport in the atoms which float in the beams of light issuing from the beauty of the leaf of the sleepy Ketahee of the diadem of the goddess Saraskatee, went to adorn the females of the eight points."'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole      Print: Book

  

[probably] James Murphy : [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sanscrit paragraph which you found t'other morning in Murphy's "Portugal," and which you will like to possess: -- '"From whose splendid virtues, the great men, who delight to sport in the atoms which float in the beams of light issuing from the beauty of the leaf of the sleepy Ketahee of the diadem of the goddess Saraskatee, went to adorn the females of the eight points."'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry      Print: Book

 

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