The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance
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Table of Contents
Story of the King of Persia 107 Conclusion 115 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. PREFA...
Conclusion 227 Additional Notes 228 INTRODU...
HISTORY OF KING ĀZĀDBAKHT AND THE VIZIER’S DAUGHTER. Thus it is recorded by the authors of remarkable histories, and the narrators of delightful tales, that there was once in the ...
On the following day the second Vizier came before the King, and, having paid his respects, recommended that Bakhtyār should be no longer kept in prison, but led out to execution. ...
On the following morning the third Vizier presented himself before the King, and, having paid his respects, expressed many apprehensions that the indulgence shown to Bakhtyār might...
On the following day, the fourth Vizier presented himself before the King, and, having paid his respects, advised him not to defer any longer the execution of Bakhtyār. The King im...
When the next morning arrived, the fifth Vizier waited upon the King, and represented the danger that might attend any further delay in the execution of Bakhtyār, as the indulgence...
On the following day the sixth Vizier, having paid his respects to the King, represented the danger of letting an enemy live when in one’s power, and, by many artful speeches, indu...
The Seventh Vizier, on the following day, approached the King, and having told him that his lenity towards Bakhtyār was made the subject of public conversation, added many argument...
On the next morning, the Eighth Vizier, having paid his compliments to the King, addressed him on the subject of Bakhtyār, and said: “Government resembles a tree, the root of which...
When the next morning came, the Ninth Vizier appeared before the King and said, that his extraordinary forbearance and lenity in respect to Bakhtyār had given occasion to much scan...
Early on the next morning the Tenth Vizier sent a woman to the Queen with a message, urging her to exert her influence over the King, and induce him to give orders for the executio...
How nice comes this point in Sindibād, That “Love is a fire—O whirlwind-like sea!” Footnote 10: _Asiatic Journal, N.S._, vols. xxxv, xxxvi, 1841.—These titles al...