Romantic Tales, Volume 3D. N. Shury, 1808 |
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Page 141 - To take it from her by force," replied Fortimbrass, "was impracticable ; but Feridoun certainly expected the Queen to give it him with her own free will. However, when he demanded it, her majesty, your mother, (who knew well the value of the wheel, and who loved a joke better than custard,) thought that it would be an excellent jest to outwit the Genius, and therefore assured him (at the same time laughing heartily) that she intended to keep it herself. This promise she adhered to more faithfully...
Page 78 - ... upon crutches. Such was the court of the Princess Chinchinosa. She received me very graciously, and at dinner I was placed at her right hand. I soon found, that spoon meat was in great request ; not but that there was a variety of other dishes, such as old mutton, large beef, and full grown fowls. But as for lamb and veal they were forbidden food ; the Princess would have fainted at the sight of a chicken ; and a pigeon, to which I was helped, proved so extremely old and tough, that in my conscience,...
Page 168 - ... Great, therefore, was my disappointment, when on my requesting him to relate his adventures, he assured me, that except those in the crystal island, he had never met with anything extraordinary in the whole course of his life. " What ! " cried I, " have you really reached the age of one-and-twenty without having once been turned into a blue bear or a china teapot? Are you really unlucky enough never to have seen so much as a single kingdom transformed into a fish-pond? never to have destroyed...
Page 1 - O'er worlds bewitch'd, in early rapture dreams, Where wild Enchantment waves her potent wand, And Fancy's beauties fill her fairy land; Where doubtful objects strange desires excite, And Fear and Ignorance afford delight.
Page 159 - I recognized in the warrior, who remained after his.companions for the purpose of taking the twelfth lipn, the very1 person, who (as Caramoussal had assured me) was most likely to effect my daughter's deliverance. I flew to meet him, intending to discover myself, and request him to proceed to Mount Atlas without a moment's delay. But my .kind intentions were frustrated. Seeing me run towards him open-mouthed, he very naturally concluded, that I meant to make a dinner of -him; and under this persuasion,...
Page 127 - These two potent sovereigns having plagued themselves with wars during upwards 0f fifteen hundred years, it was at length agreed between the King of Ophir and myself, that a final period should be put to them, and a lasting peace cemented by the union of Our children. My daughter was loveliness itself; and the Prince of Ophir was a prodigy of personal charms and mental talents, though hitherto he had been as cold as ice to the fair sex. However, plenipotentiaries having nnct on both sides, the treaty...
Page 183 - Trebizonde and his fair companion occasioned no slight surprize and sorrow. As for Moussellina, she was inconsolable for the loss of her spinningwheel, and became more grave than ever, which was a great discouragement to her illustrious admirers. My brother and myself did our best to comfort the Princess, to whom we were presented next day as relations by our good uncle, the King of Denmark."— — " The King your uncle ?" interrupted Schahriar ; " oh ! aye ! very true ! But pray, my dear sir, how...
Page 201 - Hold, King of Ophir !" said he : **' know, that I have wilfully thrown the Princesses into Feridoun's hand, and I trust, that this transient evil will soon produce a lasting good. The loss of his enchanted leg has greatly diminished the power of our foe, and I can now enter the lists with him on equal terms ; nay, I can even visit the Chrystal Island unknown to him, and in consequence can at length execute a design, which I have 'long meditated.
Page 16 - PrincV interrupted Dinarzade, in a voice equally expressive of ang< r and contempt, " you are strangely indifferent about women : " "By no means strargely," answered the Prince with a smile ; " nothing can be more natural. Nay, I will even own to you, that there is but one woman in the world, of whom I have a very high opmior, and she is ... ." " For the love of luaven, who is she? " cried Dinarzade eagerly. 'A perfect stranger to you...
Page 66 - I immediately beheld on the opposite side of the grotto a young man seated on a rosecoloured sopha, and picking his teeth in a careless attitude : the vision lasted but a moment ; yet in that short period he found time to yawn thrice, an habit of which (as you probably have already observed) love itself has not been able to cure him. The figure having disappeared, Caramoussal thus continued his discourse. —