The Works of George Meredith, Volume 1C. Scribner's sons, 1898 |
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Abarak Allah Almeryl answered art thou Aswarak awhile Baba Mustapha barber beams beasts beauty beheld betrothed Bhanavar bird blade Boolp bosom breath brow Chief City of Shagpat cried crown crying damsel dark dream earth exclaimed eyes fair father Feshnavat flame flash flea flower Garraveen gazed Genie Genii Goorelka hair hall hand hath hawk head heard heart Jewel Kadza Karaz Khipil King kiss knew Koorookh laughed leaned light Lily lips looked loveliness Luloo Mashalleed Master mighty moon mountain Noorna bin Noorka nought old woman Oolb palace Paravid phial pillar poet Princess Queen Rabesqurat Ravaloke round Ruark Rukrooth sang saying seized serpent Shahpesh Shaving of Shagpat Shibli Bagarag Shiraz sight slaves sons of Aklis soul spake stood Surely sweet Sword thee Thereupon thine thing thou art thought throne thwacking took twas Ukleet veil Vizier voice waters words Wullahy yonder youth Zurvan
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Pagina 285 - IT was ordained that Shibli Bagarag, nephew to the renowned Baba Mustapha, chief barber to the Court of Persia, should shave Shagpat, the son of Shimpoor, the son of Shoolpi, the son of Shullum; and they had been clothiers for generations, even to the time of Shagpat, the illustrious.
Pagina 111 - Then Shahpesh laughed, and cried, 'Chafe not! it is an ill thing and a hideous! This nosegay, O Khipil, it is for thee to present to thy mistress. Truly she will receive thee well after its presentation! I will have it now sent in thy name, with word that thou followest quickly. And for thy nettled nose, surely if the whim seize thee that thou desirest its chafing, to thy neighbour is permitted what to thy hand is refused.' The King set a guard upon Khipil to see that his orders were executed, and...
Pagina 112 - d out as a pomegranate-tree. And that I am not Shahpesh I regret, So to inmesh the babbler in his net. Well is that wisdom worthy to be sung, Which raised the Palace of the Wagging Tongue!
Pagina 109 - Then he bade Khipil lead the way to the noble gardens of dalliance and pleasure that he had planted and contrived. And Khipil went in that state described by the poet, when we go draggingly, with remonstrating members — " ' Knowing a dreadful strength behind And a dark fate before.
Pagina 1 - He cried aloud that his evil chance had got the better of him, and rolled his body in the sand, beating his breast, and conjuring up images of the profusion of dainties and the abundance of provision in Shiraz, exclaiming, " Well-a-way and woe's me! this it is to be selected for the diversion of him that plotteth against man." Truly is it written: On different heads misfortunes come : One bears them firm, another faints, While this one hangs them like a drum Whereon to batter loud complaints. And...
Pagina 117 - Now, while she was speaking, she suddenly inclined her ear as to a distant noise; but they heard nothing. Then, after again listening, she cried in a sharp voice, 'Ho! muffle your mouths with both hands, and stir not from the ring of the circles, as ye value life and its blessings.' So they did as she bade them, and watched her curiously. Lo! she swathed the upper and lower part of her face in linen, leaving the lips and eyes exposed; and she took water from...
Pagina 107 - Khipil, and be the excellence of thy construction made visible to me ! ' Quoth Khipil, ' To hear is to obey.' He conducted Shahpesh among the unfinished saloons and imperfect courts and roofless rooms, and by half-erected obelisks, and columns pierced and chipped, of the palace of his building. And he was bewildered at the words spoken by Shahpesh ; but now the King exalted him, and admired the perfection of his craft, the greatness of his labour, the speediness of his construction, his assiduity...
Pagina 108 - Shahpesh as in conspiracy to amuse his master. Then said Shahpesh, 'For a token that I approve thy execution of the chair, thou shalt be honoured by remaining seated in it one day and one night; but move thou to the right or to the left, showing thy soul insensible of the honour done thee, transfixed thou shalt be with twenty arrows and five...
Pagina 39 - ... flourished their lances with cries, and jerked their heels to the flanks of their steeds, and stretched forward till their beards were mixed with the tossing manes, and the dust rose after them crimson in the sun. So they coursed away, speeding behind their Chief and Bhanavar; sweet were the desert herbs under their crushing hooves! Ere the shadow of the acacia measured less than its height they came upon a spring of silver water, and...
Pagina 286 - ... the mastery of an Event lasteth among men the space of one cycle of years, and after that a fresh Illusion springeth to befool mankind, and the Seven must expend the concluding half-cycle in preparing the edge of the Sword for a new mastery.