Light from the East: Tales, Moral and Instructive, of Oriental Origin Or Character, with Notes and Introductions, Historical and Suggestive ...Darton & Company, 1856 - 194 Seiten |
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... best vestments of gold and diamonds , having a procession the length of two days before me , and such a numerous retinue of all the nobles of Bagdad , and having archers innumerable attending my caravan , which was moving toward the ...
... best vestments of gold and diamonds , having a procession the length of two days before me , and such a numerous retinue of all the nobles of Bagdad , and having archers innumerable attending my caravan , which was moving toward the ...
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... best is answered , when occasion calls , by Ideeds which their dastard minds shall shudder to relate . " " Such deeds , " replied the artful monarch , " Amurath hath in store for Sadak's arms to execute - deeds which wear the fiercest ...
... best is answered , when occasion calls , by Ideeds which their dastard minds shall shudder to relate . " " Such deeds , " replied the artful monarch , " Amurath hath in store for Sadak's arms to execute - deeds which wear the fiercest ...
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... best Kalasrade ! and when the royal janissaries have heard my tale , I will come and weep with thee in mutual wretchedness . " The fair Kalasrade bowed at her lord's commands , and left Sadak with the surrounding nobles . Sadak , having ...
... best Kalasrade ! and when the royal janissaries have heard my tale , I will come and weep with thee in mutual wretchedness . " The fair Kalasrade bowed at her lord's commands , and left Sadak with the surrounding nobles . Sadak , having ...
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... best means for preserving the health of both body and mind . Such a man may have but few friends , but undoubtedly he has fewer enemies ; envy and calumny overlook him as one beneath their notice . Now wealth , power , and prosperity ...
... best means for preserving the health of both body and mind . Such a man may have but few friends , but undoubtedly he has fewer enemies ; envy and calumny overlook him as one beneath their notice . Now wealth , power , and prosperity ...
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... best , and will take nothing for it . He falls down and worships the god of this world , but will have neither its po- verty , its vanities , nor its pleasures for his troubles . He lives poor , to die rich , and is the mere jailor of ...
... best , and will take nothing for it . He falls down and worships the god of this world , but will have neither its po- verty , its vanities , nor its pleasures for his troubles . He lives poor , to die rich , and is the mere jailor of ...
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Abudah Ackbar Adiram afflicted Ahud Allah answered Doubor answered Sadak apartment Arabs arms attendants Bagdad Barhaddan beauteous beauty Bedouins beheld beloved blessed bosom CABINET FURNITURE Caliph Catechism chest chief Codan commanded daughter death Dervise desert distress ditto Doubor Dragoman earth Ebn Temym Elar Engravings eunuchs eyes Fadlallah faithful father fear fell Gehari Genius gold Gutta Percha hand happy Harran hastened hath heart heaven honour Ishmael janissaries Jochonan Kalasrade Kalasrade's labour Lama Zarin London London Bridge looked lord merchant Abudah mighty Amurath Miriam miserable Molsallam mountains NICKEL SILVER noble Sadak Othman palace perceived Pictures plain pleasure possession prince prophet Rabbi replied returned riches rocks royal seized sent seraglio Shakarahs silver slaves sofa soul Sultan Talisman of Oromanes Tasgi thee thine thou art thou hast thousand throne thy slaves Tibet trembling vizier voice W. H. Smith Wahydyah Waters of Oblivion words wretched Zerinda
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Seite 5 - But tell me further," said he, "what thou discoverest on it." "I see multitudes of people passing over it," said I, "and a black cloud hanging on each end of it." As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it: and upon...
Seite 1 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Seite 2 - I had been often told that the rock before me was the haunt of a genius ; and that several had been entertained with music who had passed by it, but never heard that the musician had before made himself visible. When he had raised my thoughts...
Seite 6 - Alas !" said I, " man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death !" The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect.
Seite 1 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Seite 6 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. ' The genius seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it : "Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up,
Seite 5 - ... hundred. As I was counting the arches the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Seite 8 - The Genius making me no answer, I turned me about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy...
Seite 2 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, -I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability...