The Thousand and One Nights, Or, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Band 2Harper & Brothers, 1848 |
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Seite 164 - 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.
Seite 338 - God willeth an event to befall a man who is endowed with reason and hearing and sight, He...
Seite 503 - King his father-in-law and their family resided in the most happy state and in the practice of good deeds until they were visited by the terminator of delights and the separator of companions, and they all died.
Seite 124 - I might have drank of its rivers ; but in this place are neither trees, nor fruits, nor rivers : and there is no strength nor power but in God, the High, the Great...
Seite 112 - O porter, know that my story is wonderful, and I will inform thee of all that happened to me and befell me before I attained this prosperity and sat in this place wherein thou seest me. For I attained not this prosperity and this place save after severe fatigue and great trouble and many terrors. How often have I endured fatigue and toil in my early years ! I have performed seven voyages, and connected with each voyage is a wonderful tale, that would confound the mind. All that which I endured happened...
Seite 156 - He then became intoxicated, and drowned in intoxication ; all his limbs, and the muscles of his sides, became relaxed, and he began to lean from side to side upon my shoulders. So when I knew that he was drunk, and that he was unconscious of existence, I put my hand to his feet, and loosed them from my neck. Then I stooped with him, and sat down, and threw him upon the ground. I scarcely believed that I had liberated myself and escaped from the state in which I had been ; but I feared him, lest he...
Seite 454 - ... eat." So one came down to him with a bannock and another with broken meats and a third with a bittock of cheese and a fourth with a cucumber ; and so on till his lap was full and he returned to his closet and laid the whole between her hands, saying, "Eat.
Seite 133 - 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.4i — To this they all replied, By Allah, this is a right opinion and a wise proceeding.
Seite 118 - ... too long. I continued to amuse myself with the sight of those islands and the things that they contained, until I stood one day upon the shore of the sea, with a staff in my hand, as was my custom, and, lo, a great vessel approached, wherein were many merchants ; and when it arrived at the harbour of the city, and its place of anchoring, the master furled its sails, brought it to an anchor by the shore, and put forth the landing-plank ; and the sailors brought out every thing that was in that...
Seite 118 - I likewise saw during that voyage many wonderful and strange things, such that, if I related them to you, the description would be too long. I continued to amuse myself with the sight of those islands and the things that they contained, until I stood one day upon the shore of the sea, with a staff in my hand, as was my custom, and lo, a great vessel approached, wherein were many merchants...