Though parch'd and bloomless, and as wild as bare,
A rill of nature once meander'd there;
E'en where Arabia's arid waste entombs
Whole caravans, the green oasis blooms."
Oăsis will be found also in Lemprière's Classical Dictionary, but not in the same sense as above.
M. C. R.
The word Oasis, about which your correspondent H. L. Temple inquires, is marked in Bailey's edition of Facciolati's Latin Dictionary (in the Appendix) Oăsis, making the a short.
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Frightened out of his Seven Senses (Vol. iv., p. 233.).—A passage containing the words "seven senses" occurs in the poem of Taliesin called Y Byd Mawr, or the Macrocosm, of which a translation may be found in vol. xxi. p. 30. of The British Magazine. The writer of the paper in which it is quoted refers also to the Mysterium Magnum of Jacob Boehmen, which teaches "how the soul of man, or his 'inward holy body,' was compounded of the seven properties under the influence of the seven planets:"—