The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 第 3 巻

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R. Worthington, 1884
 

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363 ページ - ... of life, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Sunderer of societies.
347 ページ - So saying, he ran the boat under an arch and threw a piece of black cloth over the Khalif and his companions, who looked out from under the covering and saw, in the bows of the barge, a man holding a cresset of red gold and clad in a tunic of red satin, with a muslin turban on his head. Over one of his shoulders hung a cloak of yellow brocade, and on the other was a green silk bag full of Sumatran aloes-wood, with which he fed the cresset by way of firewood. In the stern stood another man, clad like...
73 ページ - I know it by yonder damsel,' replied the jeweller, ' who is Shemsennehar's slave-girl ; for she came to me awhile since with a written order for a necklace of jewels ; and I sent her a costly one.' When Ali heard this, he was greatly troubled, so that the jeweller feared for his life, but after awhile he recovered himself and said, ' O my brother, I conjure thee by Allah to tell me truly how thou knowest her.
249 ページ - Bandar 3 of the merchants in Cairo. And there resided with him a wife whom he loved, and who loved him : but he had lived with her forty years, and had not been blessed with a daughter nor with a son by her. And he sat one day in his shop, and saw the other merchants...
287 ページ - tis a strange thing! When a man desireth aught of his wife he dunneth her till she doeth it ; but if a wife desire aught of her husband, he will not grant it to her. Then he will say: What dost thou want? and do thou answer: First swear to grant my request.
274 ページ - Aladdin ; but when they arrived at the house, they found fifty mules, upon which were fifty loads of stuffs, attended by a black slave upon a mule ; and they said to him, To whom belong these loads...
104 ページ - By his cheeks' unfading damask and his smiling teeth I swear, By the arrows that he feathers with the witchery of his air, By his sides so soft and tender and his glances bright and keen, By the whiteness of his forehead and the blackness of his hair, By his arched imperious eyebrows, chasing slumber from my lids...
290 ページ - Then he plastered down the marble slab, as it was, and returning whence he came, went back to his own house. As soon as it was day, the Khalif went out into the sittingchamber, and finding the eunuchs drugged with henbane, aroused them. Then he put his hand to the chair and found neither dress nor signet nor rosary nor dagger nor lantern : whereat he was exceeding wroth and donning the habit of anger, which was red, sat down in the Divan. So the Vizier Jaafer came forward and kissing the earth before...
343 ページ - I smelt the delicious fragrance of musk and other perfumes that exhaled from her and could think no otherwise but that I was in Paradise or in the mazes of a dream. When it was day, she asked me where I lodged and I told her, " In such a place ; " whereupon she gave me a handkerchief gold and silver wrought, with somewhat tied in it, and bade me depart, saying,

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