Fairy Tales and RomancesH. G. Bohn, 1849 - 562 páginas |
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admiration adventure Aëtius Alie appeared arms astonishment Astracan Bactria beauty began beheld brother Caliph Caramoussal charms chintz Circassia Clodio cock court cried Crystallina curiosity daughter delight Dentata desired despair Dinarzade discovered dress Druid Enchanter enchantress endeavoured exclaimed extremely eyes Facardin fair father favour fear Feridoun Fortimbrass fortune frightful gave Genius giant grief grotto hand hastened head heard heart honour husband informed King knife lady look lover magnificent master May-flower Merlin misfortunes mistress Mother of Sheaths Mount Atlas Moussellina mouth never night nymph Ophir palace perceived person Pharamond Pooh-pooh possession present Prince of Armenia Prince of Noisy Prince of Trebizonde Princess Puncheon queen Radiant rendered replied Sapinella Satraps seemed seized seneschal Serena sight slipper soon sooner sorceress spinning-wheel stranger suddenly Sultan surprise sylphs tears thou thought threw took turned whole woman Zeneyda
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Página 19 - you are desired to relate your own adventures, which in the present posture of affairs you should have told as concisely as possible; and instead of this you weary us with another person's, accompanied with details so uninteresting, that it is a doubt whether they are more tedious or trifling." "And what does it signify," cried the Sultan, "whose adventures he relates, so that they amuse me, and last out the night ? What have I better to do, than to hear them ? Go on, Facardin/' he added, "and heed...
Página 1 - ... to the capital of India. Hearing of his arrival, the sultan was desirous to know the history of his travels. In consequence, one evening the prince was ordered to attend the monarch, whom he found already in his bed-chamber ; the fair and wise Scherazade reposed by his side, and her sister Dinarzade occupied as usual a snug little camp-bed in the corner. This latter was not the person least anxious to hear the prince's history ; she had perceived that he was young and handsome, and had even been...
Página 85 - ... upon his back, you would have sworn, that they were the wings of a cock. His cuirass, also covered with similar plumes, represented the bird's stomach : a thick tuft of long feathers bending backwards, seemed to rise from his chine ; each leg was armed with a gilt spur, fastened just above his ancle ; and in order that nothing might be wanting to the resemblance which he wished to produce, he clapped his wing-looking bucklers three times, and imitated the crow' of a cock so perfectly, that any...
Página 55 - Under this same bush a young pilgrim, whom the night had surprised, had also taken shelter. This I did not discover till the dawn permitted me to distinguish the surrounding objects. He woke at the same time with me, and showed no less surprise than I did on finding himself near me. In spite of my curiosity I was then so uninformed, that I took him for a girl of my own age, whom I conjectured to be a foreigner from the difference of her head-dress and strange cut of her clothes ; as to features,...