The Thousand and One Nights, Volume 1Stanley Lane-Poole Bell, 1906 |
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... manner of its composition we know scarcely anything . The native critics of Arabic literature paid small attention to a collection of romances which appeared to them ( as one of them wrote ) only as " a corrupt book of silly tales . " A ...
... manner of its composition we know scarcely anything . The native critics of Arabic literature paid small attention to a collection of romances which appeared to them ( as one of them wrote ) only as " a corrupt book of silly tales . " A ...
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... manners and customs are not early Persian , but mainly medieval Egyptian and Syrian , and here and there purely Arab . If ... manner to the story - teller's art . A night may be long or short , and stories may be added or omitted without ...
... manners and customs are not early Persian , but mainly medieval Egyptian and Syrian , and here and there purely Arab . If ... manner to the story - teller's art . A night may be long or short , and stories may be added or omitted without ...
Page vii
... Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians , " which displayed his intimate acquaintance with a characteristic form of Moham- madan life and character . Cairo was then the city in which Arabian manners were still preserved in their ...
... Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians , " which displayed his intimate acquaintance with a characteristic form of Moham- madan life and character . Cairo was then the city in which Arabian manners were still preserved in their ...
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... manners and customs . It was originally my intention to omit almost the whole of the poetry , thinking that the loss of measure and rhyme , and the impossibility of pre- serving the examples of paronomasia and some other figures with ...
... manners and customs . It was originally my intention to omit almost the whole of the poetry , thinking that the loss of measure and rhyme , and the impossibility of pre- serving the examples of paronomasia and some other figures with ...
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... manners , has been universally recognized ; but they are better read as a whole and in systematic order than in the form of notes scattered here and there at the ends of a score of chapters in three volumes , and such a systematic ...
... manners , has been universally recognized ; but they are better read as a whole and in systematic order than in the form of notes scattered here and there at the ends of a score of chapters in three volumes , and such a systematic ...
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