Arabian Nights, כרך 1W. Miller, 1810 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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עמוד xxxv - Vizier's ; and the very house confessed the difference between an old devotee and a young beauty. It was nicely clean and magnificent. I was met at the door by two black eunuchs, who led me through a long gallery between two ranks of beautiful young girls, with their hair finely plaited, almost hanging to their feet, all dressed in fine light damasks, brocaded with silver. I was sorry that decency did not permit me to stop to consider them nearer.
עמוד xxxvii - She was dressed in a caftan of gold brocade, flowered with silver, very well fitted to her shape, and showing to admiration the beauty of her bosom, only shaded by the thin gauze of her shift.
עמוד xxxviii - I cannot imagine why they should not be allowed to do so. I rather think it a virtue to be able to admire without any mixture of desire or envy. The gravest writers have spoken with great warmth of some celebrated pictures and statues. The workmanship of Heaven certainly excels all our weak imitations, and, I think, has a much better claim to our praise. For my part, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous Fatima than the finest piece of sculpture could have given...
עמוד 91 - ... convulsions. When the physician Douban, or rather his head, saw that the poison had taken effect, and that the king had only a few moments to live : " Tyrant," he exclaimed, " behold how those princes are treated who abuse their power and sacrifice the innocent.
עמוד 118 - ... wretch. He then dragged the body into the court of the castle and threw it into a welL Having done this, he returned and lay down in the black's place, hiding his sabre under the covering, and remained there in order to complete what he projected. The enchantress arrived soon after : her first business was to go into the apartment where the king of the Black Isles, her husband, was.
עמוד xxxv - The roof was painted with all sorts of flowers, falling out of gilded baskets, that seemed tumbling down.
עמוד xxxvi - I was so struck with admiration, that I could not for some time speak to her, being wholly taken up in gazing. That surprising harmony of features ! that charming result of the whole ! that exact proportion of body! that lovely bloom of complexion unsullied by art! the unutterable enchantment of her smile ! But her eyes! large and black, with all the soft- languishment of the blue! every turn of her face discovering some new grace.
עמוד 356 - Bells, distant about ten days' sail from that of Serendib, sailing with a fair wind, and six days' from the isle of Kela, where we landed. Here there were some lead mines, some Indian canes, and excellent camphor. The king of the isle of Kela is very rich and powerful. His authority extends over the island of Bells, which is two days' journey in extent; the inhabitants are still so uncivilised as to eat human flesh.
עמוד 51 - ... of my son, when he turned his eyes, filled with tears, so persuasively upon me, that I had no power to execute my intention. The knife fell from my hand, and I told my wife I was determined to have another calf. She tried every means to induce me to alter my mind ; I continued firm, however, in my resolution, in spite of all she could say ; promising, for the sake of appeasing her, to sacrifice this calf at the feast of Bairam on the following year. The next morning my steward desired to speak...
עמוד xli - She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and was extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, the hafts set with diamonds.