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Aboulcasem Aladdin answer appeared arms Assyria Bagdad Basra beautiful Bedreddin bird brought Cadige cady Calaf caliph charms Circassia command conduct Couloufe court cried Damascus danger daugh daughter dear death dervise desart Dorathil-goase earth enemy eunuch eyes father favour fear fortune gave Gazna genie give gold Habed-il-Rouman Habib hand happy head heard heart Heaven Hicar honour hope husband Ilage Ilsetilsone impatience Kaskas king lady look lover madam magician Mahomet majesty marriage master Maugraby means ment monarch Namouna narch ness never night Nisabic Nogais palace passion perceived Persian pleasure present princess prophet punishment queen Ravia rendered replied Rezia Salamis says sent sequins Setelpedour shew sight Simoustapha Sinkarib Sire slave sofa soon sovereign sultan Syria tell thee thing thou thought throne tion took visier wife wish woman words wretch young prince
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第 153 頁 - I wish to live under no other government, and there is no sacrifice I am not ready to make for the preservation of the Union save that of honor. If a disruption takes place, I shall go back in sorrow to my people and share the misery of my native state, and save in her defense there will be one soldier less in the world than now.
第 164 頁 - ... moisture produced fertility. He knew the sea to be formed by the influx of the rivers ; he could trace the vapors raised from it by the heat of the sun to the tops of the mountains, and there behold them falling into plenteous springs, to perpetuate the wonderful operations of nature. He knew how to rank every animal in its proper class ; while the wonders of instinct excited his surprise, he was pleased to see these still in subordination to the energies of reason.
第 199 頁 - While the Arabian knight was taking measures to secure the tranquillity of Dorathil-goase and her subjects, preparations were made in the palace, and in the city of Medinaz-ilballor, for the triumphant entry of their victorious deliverer and avenger, who was soon to become their sovereign. The lovely queen strove to divert her impatience and tender solicitude, by making Ilzaide repeat whatever she knew of her dear knight; his minutest actions, his words, and even the most trifling circumstances that...
第 164 頁 - you must apply to my master to give you the information you desire. As for me, I must long be all eye and all ear. I must learn to use my hand, before I begin to exercise my tongue, and to write my letters as pure as pearls from the water.
第 187 頁 - You are not armed," said the monster, "nor have you a horse." "Know," said the young sultan, "that my turban is my casque, and my cimeter is instead of a helmet and a buckler. I need no horse; let thy master come on ! I here defy him and all his powers.
第 200 頁 - Their roaring, their yells, reiterated by numerous echoes, still resounded in our ears and continued to terrify us, when suddenly we thought we saw a glance of lightning, and the whole noise ceased. We passed the night in the greatest disquiet and in continual alarm, from the impression of terror which still remained on our minds; but this morning we could perceive nothing else but the infectious vapors that arose from the blood which those monsters had shed. Had it not been dried up by the sun and...
第 200 頁 - ... invention, which has already been so serviceable to us. "When an affair is regulated by fate, its accomplishment is often made to depend on circumstances so trivial, and on the employment of means apparently so insignificant, that weak man knows not to what he should attribute the success. Endeavor then, ladies, I pray you, to find our raft, if it be not easier for you to form another. I shall never be at ease till I have dried up the tears of the lady of the beautiful tresses, and till I have...
第 174 頁 - Amirala came eagerly to meet the company, in hopes of again seeing their son. But great was their surprise, when they saw tears flow from every eye. He who had undertaken to speak, advanced before the rest, and thus addressed Salamis : " Powerful emir, we return in sorrow for the mournful news we must tell. But why should we seek to hide what you cannot but discover ? You seek your son ; but heaven has ravished him from your hopes. The deserts which we have traversed are full of venomous serpents,...
第 183 頁 - You yourself would have been the first victim of their rage, had you not employed the talisman to whose name they were once subject. Terrified at sight of it, they ascended into the air, and raised the storm which you have witnessed. " I followed them at the head of the spirits under my command. We began a violent combat, the effects of which you have also witnessed, without understanding them. You then employed the only means which remained in your power. Their success was certain in the hands of...
第 208 頁 - And where shall Salamis be," cried the generous old warrior, " if he fails to accompany his son in so glorious an enterprise ? Here are two suits of armor under the tiger-skins. I pray thee tell me, was this intended for your wife, or me ? What Arab is able to bear these arms, or even to lift this lance ? " Having said this, he took it up and brandished it in the air in a terrible manner.