A Group of Eastern Romances and Stories from the Persian, Tamil, and UrduWilliam Alexander Clouston |
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afrít Amír asked Baghdad Bahrám Bakáwalí bazár beauty became began behold bird blind Bodhaditya Bráhman brothers brought calamity called camel caused darvesh daughter death Dilbar dirhams dív Drupada entered eunuch exclaimed eyes fabliau fairies Farrukhrúz father favour fruit garden gave gems genii gold hand happy haram Hatim head heard heart Hindú husband Husn Bánú Indra jewels journey Kashank Kasharkasha Kází Khoja killed King Alakésa king's lady lapwing leave majesty mango merchant minister misfortune morning Muslims Nassar night once palace parrot Persian poison poor present prince princess Queen Bánú Quoth Rájá replied ring romance rose royal Rúh-afzá saying sent serpent servant Sháh Shah Manssur Shíráz Shoayb Sikhandin Sirikap sleep soon story sultan Táj ul-Mulúk tale thee thou throne told took treasure tree vazír wife wish woman wonderful Yaksha Yaman young youth Zayn
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Page xxvi - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Page 457 - Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — • Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year.
Page xxi - On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
Page 9 - believes in God and the day of resurrection must respect his guest; and the time of being kind to him is one day and one night; and the period of entertaining him is three days; and after that, if he does it longer, he benefits him more ; but it is not right for a guest to stay in the house of the host so long as to incommode him.
Page 560 - When the king said this to him, the servant was frightened and confessed immediately, and bringing those dinars left them there. So the king for his part summoned the Brahman and gave him, who had been fasting in the meanwhile, his dinars, lost and found again, like a second soul external to his body.
Page 542 - God avert ! — they made by magic two brazen lions, which they set before the entrance of the Holy of Holies, one on the right, the other on the left. Now, if any one were to go within and learn the holy Name, then the lions would begin to roar as he came out, so that from alarm and bewilderment he would lose his presence of mind and forget the Name.
Page 503 - ... gods. On arriving back at the mountain-peak in Aino-land, he stepped off the cloud on to the mountain, and, descending to the valley, told the wizard how successful and delightful the journey had been, and thanked him for the opportunity kindly granted him of seeing sights so numerous and so strange. The wizard was overcome with astonishment. For what he had told the other...
Page xxvi - ... all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
Page 121 - MAN is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster ; Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness ; For all his care and providence Is too, too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune ; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost with one unlucky hit, And ruin'd with a circumstance, And mere punctilio, of chance.
Page 513 - A band of armed men had entered the house with intent to plunder, but before they could effect their purpose they had been observed by the faithful Bhyro, who commenced an attack upon them. Before Dyaram could render any assistance, Bhyro had laid two of the robbers dead at his feet; a third, on the approach of Dyaram, aimed a blow at his head, which was prevented from taking effect by Bhyro seizing the ruffian by the throat and laying him prostrate on the ground.