The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments : a New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes, Volumen2

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John Murray, 1859
 

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Página 155 - 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.
Página 425 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Página 58 - O idiot, I saw thee in the desert hungry, and, feeling compassion for thee, I gathered for thee some grain, and took hold of thee that thou mightest eat ; but thou fleddest from me, and I see no reason for thy flight unless it be to mortify. Shew thyself, then, and take the grain that I have brought thee, and eat it, and may it be light and wholesome to thee...
Página 460 - Verily thy fortune is in Cairo : therefore seek it and repair to it. So he journeyed to Cairo ; and when he arrived there, the evening overtook him, and he slept in a mosque. Now there was, adjacent to the mosque, a house ; and as God (whose name be exalted !) had decreed, a party of robbers entered the mosque, and thence passed to that house ; and the people of the house, awaking at the disturbance...
Página 192 - Accordingly they set forth on their journey, and Neameh was united again with his father and his mother, and they enjoyed the most happy life, until they were visited by the terminator of delights and the separator of companions.
Página 60 - He then said to the wolf, Hasten not to kill me, lest thou repent, O courageous wild beast, endowed with might and excessive fortitude. If thou delay, and consider what I am about to tell thee, thou wilt know the desire that I formed ; and if thou hasten to kill me, there will be no profit to thee in thy doing so ; but we shall die here together.
Página 294 - He had a carpet of green silk on which his throne was placed, being of a prodigious length and breadth, and sufficient for all his forces to stand upon, the men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his left ; and that when all were in order, the wind, at his command, took up the carpet, and transported it, with all that were upon it, wherever he pleased ; the army of birds at the same time flying over their heads, and forming a kind of canopy to shade them from the sun.
Página 306 - It is related, on the authority of the learned men of Hemyer, in El-Yemen, that when Sheddad and those who were with him were destroyed by the loud cry, his son Sheddad the Less reigned after him; for his father, Sheddad the Greater, had left him as successor to his kingdom, in the land of Hadram6t and Seba, on his departure with the troops who accompanied him to Irem Zat-el-'Emad.
Página 322 - And while he was thus talking to himself, lo, one of the slave-girls filled for him a cup of wine ; and he took it from. her hand and drank it; after which, the slave-girls plied him with wine in abundance ; and one of them threw into his cup a lozenge of benj ; and when it had settled in his stomach, he fell down senseless. Er-Rasheed then gave orders to convey him to his house ; and the servants did so, and laid him on his bed, still in a state of insensibility.
Página 256 - And do thou answer, When thou hast sworn, I will tell thee. But if he swear to thee by his head, or by Allah, say to him, Swear by thy divorce from me.

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