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Acbar Afkun Agra already amongst animal appeared arms army artillery ascended attended Auzeem beautiful beheld beloved boat Bochari bosom camp Cashmere castle chamber chancellor chieftain Chusero Circassian citadel command companions crowd Delhi dervish directed earth elephants emperor empire enemy exclaimed eyes father favour Fazeel fear feelings felt fire flowers followed fortune friends gate gold hand happiness harem head heard heart heaven hermit Hindostan hope horses hour imperial Jehangire Jumna Kabul Kanun Karaman Kazim Ayas Kebeer Lahore light looked Mangeli ment Mher-Ul-Nissa mind Mirtas Mogul morning mountains never night Nourmahal Nourmahal's observed officers omrahs once Orcha palace palanquins passed permitted Persian person present prince prison proceeded rajaputs river round scarcely scene seemed seen Seirami Selim side slave soon soul sounds sovereign speedily subah Suleiman tain tents thought throne tion troops turned voice walls whole wine zeem Zeinedeen
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الصفحة 50 - Thou art the wise instructor of the whole, worthy to be adored. There is none like unto thee ; where, then, in the three worlds, is there one above thee ? Wherefore I bow down ; and, with my body prostrate upon the ground, crave thy mercy, Lord ! worthy to be adored ; for thou shouldest bear with me, even as a father with his son, a friend with his. friend, a lover with his beloved.
الصفحة 264 - I liberally indulged. And in very truth, encompassed as I was with youthful associates of congenial minds, breathing the air of a delicious climate — ranging through lofty and splendid saloons, every part of which was decorated with all the graces of painting and sculpture, and the floors bespread with the richest carpets of silk and gold, would it not have been a species of folly to have rejected the aid of an exhilarating cordial — and what cordial can surpass the juice of the grape...
الصفحة 240 - Memoir*, he makes no secret of his habitual excesses, but says his usual allowance once reached twenty cups of spirits a-day, and that if he was a single hour without his beverage, his hands began to shake, and he was unable to sit at rest. After coming to the throne, he took for some time but five cups (little more than a quart), diluted with wine, and only after night-fall. Of opium, his daily dose, at fortysix years of age, was eight ruttees, orsixty-four grains.
الصفحة 107 - Boy ! let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate'er the frowning zealots say : — Tell them their Eden cannot show A stream so clear as Rocnabad, A bower so sweet as Mosellay.
الصفحة 143 - Agrah, are usefully engaged, either in the pursuits of science or the arts, or of improvements for the benefit of mankind, and have in numerous instances arrived at the highest distinctions in the state, there being, indeed, to be found in this city men of every description, and of every religion on the face of the earth.
الصفحة 264 - For myself, I cannot but acknowledge that such was the excess to which I had carried my indulgence, that my usual daily allowance extended to twenty, and sometimes to more than twenty cups, each cup containing half a seir, (about six ounces,) and eight cups being equal to a maun of Irak (about three pounds).
الصفحة 279 - ... compensation of three thousand tomauns, a horse with jewelled caparisons, a number of beautiful female slaves, and many males, with the promise of future favours in reserve, the Portuguese physician was ordered to send for me ; and applying some styptic preparation to the wound, it quickly healed, and so perfectly, that it might be said I was thus armless from my birth. I was then dismissed, and having shortly afterwards obtained a passage in another ship, in about a month from my departure reached...
الصفحة 34 - HAIL, chastening friend, Adversity! 'tis thine The mental ore to temper and refine; To cast in Virtue's mould the yielding heart, And Honour's polish to the mind impart. Without thy wakening touch, thy plastic aid, I'd lain the shapeless mass that Nature made; But formed, great artist, by thy magic hand, I gleam a sword, to conquer and command.
الصفحة 264 - So far, indeed, was this baneful propensity carried, that if I were but an hour without my beverage, my hands began to shake, and I was unable to sit at rest. Convinced by these symptoms, that if the habit gained upon me in this proportion my situation must soon become one of the utmost peril, I felt it full time to devise some expedient to abate the evil : and in six months I accordingly succeeded in reducing my quantity gradually from twenty to five cups a day.
الصفحة 262 - In very truth, however we may have bestowed upon these performances the character of trick or juggle, they very evidently partake of the nature of something beyond the exertion of human energy...