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A Selection from the Writings, Prose, and Poetical, of the Late Henry W. Torrens (Volume 1); With a Biographical Memoir

A Selection from the Writings, Prose, and Poetical, of the Late Henry W. Torrens (Volume 1); With a Biographical Memoir


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... And he came up to the dry land, and reached the tree, on which they were, and sat down beneath it; and he opened the chest, and took thence a coffer, and he unclosed it, and there came out thence a young girl, slender in person, beautiful as the bright sun, as the poet Ooteya has said in commendation--"She shone forth in the darkness: then beamed out The day, and all the foliage glistened o'er her. So bright is she, two suns when she appears Shoot forth their rays, and the pale moon is shamed. Created nature bows as she advances--And lifts her veil, and when repellant lightnings She flashes from her eyes, the rain drops heavily In tears." Then they both gave her rings from off their hands, and she said to them," This Ufreet carried me off secretly on the night of my marriage, and put me into a coffer, and placed the coffer in a chest, and put on the chest seven strong locks, and laid me low in the midst of the roaring sea, the ever restless in the dashing of waves; yet he does not know that when a woman desires aught, there is nothing can prevail against her, as certain poets say. "With confidence no women grace, Nor trust an oath that's given by them; Passion's the source, and resting place, Of anger and of joy with them; False love they shew with lying face, But 'neath the cloak all's guile with them; In YoosooPs story you may trace, Some of the treacheries rife in them; See ye not father Adam's case? He was driven forth by cause of them." Certain poets too have said, "But alas! for you, who blame me Fix the blamed one in his fault! Is the sin with which you shame me, Great and grievous as you call't? Say, I be indeed a lover, Have I done aught greater crime Than in all men you discover, Even from the olden time? Ne'er at earthly thing I'll wonder, What...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154249521
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 114
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154249522
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 218 gr


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