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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1811. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... No. LXXII. Veluti in jpeculo. As in a mirror. When a few moons had passed away, Hamed, a young man of large possessions, and remarkable integrity, demanded Zulima for a wife. His palace dazzled the eye with its magnificence. His dress was purple enriched with gold, and the jewels in his turban glittered like the rays of the sun. He commanded, by inheritance, an extensive tract of land, which was cultivated like a garden. Herds innumerable lowed in his fields, and flocks without number bleated in his pastures. Yet, in the midst of his riches, Hamed was temperate; fifty women only had he in his Haram. He had many personal perfections, but they were trifling compared with the beauties of his mind, which resembled an emerald of inestimable value, deposited in a golden casket. The first view of Zulima's uncommon charms struck him at once with wonder and delight. She appeared to his ravished eyes as majestic as the cedar of Lebanon and graceful as the tulip of Candahar. He VOL. II. M poured forth his soul before her, called her the light of his life, and swore she was more lovely than the daughters of Paradise. Zulima soon became inebriated with the homage paid to her, and, imagining, too hastily, that she should increase his sensibility by retarding the completion of his wishes, and quicken desire by protracting the moment of possession, urged him, by turns, to hope and to despair, by every feminine artifice she could think of. But Hamed soon discovered that the heart of Zulima was deceitful as the ocean, when it is unruffled by a breeze, and that she was neither charmed by his.person, nor captivated by his manners. He discovered that the voice of adulation alone Was music to her ear, and that she was blind to all beauties but her own. At this discovery his soul was...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235213861
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235213862
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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