The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments : a New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes, Volume 3John Murray, 1859 |
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Pagina 14 - 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.
Pagina 342 - Dolet-Khatoon, until they were visited by the terminator of delights and the separator of companions.
Pagina 29 - Or we will remain in this place until a ship shall pass by, when we will embark in it. And if we be not able to kill him, we will embark [on our rafts], and put out to sea; and if we be drowned, we shall be preserved from being roasted over the fire, and from being slaughtered. If we escape, we escape ; and if we be drowned, we die martyrs.
Pagina 44 - 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 down into the pit. They also let down to him a great jug of sweet water, and seven cakes of bread ; and when they had let him down, he loosed himself...
Pagina 70 - And the present was a cup of ruby, a span high, the inside of which was embellished with precious pearls; and a bed covered with the skin of the serpent that swalloweth the elephant, which skin hath spots, each like a piece of gold, and...
Pagina 82 - Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 91 - ... 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 off with them to the tops of the rocks. Thither the men immediately ascend, drive the birds away, and...
Pagina 650 - Maaroof, the son-in-law of the King, hath arrived . So he said, God is most great ! What is this calamity ! Verily he came to me fleeing from his wife, and he was a poor man. Whence then came to him merchandise ? But probably the daughter of the King hath contrived for him a stratagem, in fear of disgrace, and Kings are not unable to accomplish anything. However, may God (whose name be exalted !) protect him, and not disgrace him ! — And all the other merchants rejoiced and were glad because they...
Pagina 89 - El-Kazweenee states, that the 'anka is the greatest of birds; that it carries off the elephant as the kite carries off the mouse ; that, in consequence of its carrying off a bride, God, at the prayer of a prophet named Handhalah, banished it to an island in the Circumambient Ocean, unvisited by men, under the Equinoctial Line ; that it lives one thousand and seven hundred years, &c.