The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called, in England, the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes, Volume 3Edward Stanley Poole J. Murray, 1859 |
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Abd-Allah abode Aboo-Seer acquainted Allah answered Arabs arose art thou aught Baghdad beauty became beheld bird Breslau edition brother brought Cairo ceased companions courser damsel daughter desire door dost thou Efreet Egypt Emeer Moosà entered Es-Sindibád eunuch eyes father fear female slaves God whose name hand Hasan hath heard heart island jewels Jinn Jóharah Joodar Jullanár Khaleefeh King Bedr Básim kissed the ground knew land lord Maaroof Maghrabee Magian master memlooks merchant mother mountain mule name be exalted night NOTE old woman pair of saddle-bags palace Persian pieces of gold proceeded Queen recited rejoiced replied returned Sá'ed saluted saying seal-ring Seyf-el-Mulook sheykh ship sister story Suleyman Sumatra thee thine thing thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thousand pieces thyself took uncle unto Verily verses voyage weeping wept Wezeer wherefore whereupon wife wondered words young
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Page 355 - Alee, and with all the other favourites of God. God is our sufficieney ; and excellent is the Guardian. And there is no strength nor power but in God, the High, the Great. O God, 0 our Lord, O Thou liberal of pardon, O Thou most bountiful of the most bountiful. O God. Amen.
Page 17 - I might have drunk of its rivers ; but in this place are neither trees nor fruits nor rivers : and there is no strength nor power but in God, the High, the Great...
Page 107 - ... became in intense darkness within it, and the raft continued to carry me in with the current to a narrow place beneath the mountain, where the sides of the raft rubbed against the sides of the channel of the river, and my head rubbed against the roof of the channel. I was unable to return thence, and I blamed myself for that which I had done, and said, If this place become narrower to the raft, it will scarcely pass through it, and it cannot return : so I shall perish in this place in sorrow,...
Page 115 - Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion ; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. Death hath destroyed them and disunited them, and in the dust they have lost what they amassed ; As though they had only put down their loads to rest a while; quickly have they departed ! And the Emeer Moosa wept until he became insensible, and he said, There is no •deity but God, the Living, the Enduring without failure!
Page 89 - ... snakes with which they are infested. Near the summit, it is said, there are deep valleys, full of caverns and surrounded by precipices, amongst which the diamonds are found; and here many eagles and white storks, attracted by the snakes on which they feed, are accustomed to make their nests. The persons who are in quest of the diamonds take their stand near the mouths of the caverns, and from thence cast down several pieces of flesh, which the eagles and storks pursue into the valleys, and carry...
Page 42 - ... taking the husband with them; and they went forth with them to the outside of the city, and came to a place in the side of a mountain by the sea. They advanced to a spot there, and lifted up from it a great stone, and there appeared, beneath the place of this, a margin of stone, like the margin of a well. Into this they threw down that woman ; and lo, it was a great pit beneath the mountain. Then they brought the man, tied him beneath his bosom by a rope of fibres of the palm-tree, and let him...
Page 135 - an and the Lord of the Stakes?" God hath cut them off, and it is He who cutteth short the lives of mankind, and He hath made the mansions to be void of their presence. Did they prepare provision for the day of resurrection, and make themselves ready to reply to the Lord of men ? — O thou, if thou know me not, I will acquaint thee with my name and my descent. I am Tedmur," the daughter of the King of the Amalekites, of those who ruled the countries with equity.
Page 179 - Thereupon we agreed with him that he should repair to Cairo in the disguise of a Jewish merchant, so that if one of us perished in the lake, he might take his mule and saddle-bags and give the bearer an hundred dinars.
Page 167 - So the keeper returned to the Kadee, and said to him as the boy had told her ; upon which the Kadee said to the three men, Was it thus agreed between you and her? They answered, Yes.
Page 282 - There is nothing said about the bridle in the account of the sale ; but I am sure that, in the original tale, Beder's misfortune must have been owing to his having parted with it. In Chaucer's Squier's Tale, the bridle would also appear to have been of some importance.