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The pathetic measure of Nava.

"Last of all she took a guitar, and sung a pathetic air in the measure called Nava, which is always used to express the lamentations of absent lovers." - Persian Tales.

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Her ruby rosary.

"Le Tespih, qui est un chapelet, composé de 99 petites boules d'agathe, de jaspe, d'ambre, de corail, ou d'autre matière precieuse. J'en ai vu un superbe au Seigneur Jerpos; il étoit de belles et grosses perles parfaites et égales, estimé trentee mille piastres."- Toderini.

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A silk dyed with the blossoms of the sorrowful tree Nilica. "Blossoms of the sorrowful Nyctanthes give a durable colour to silk."- Remarks on the Husbandry of Bengal, p. 200.- Nilica is one of the Indian names of this flower. — Sir W. Jones. - The Persians call it Gul. — Carreri.

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When pitying heaven to roses turn'd

The death-flames that beneath him burn'd.

Of their other Prophet Zoroaster, there is a story told in Dion Prusæus, Orat. 36., that the love of wisdom and virtue leading him to a solitary life upon a mountain, he found it one day all in a flame, shining with celestial fire, out of which he came without any harm, and instituted certain sacrifices to God, who, he declared, then appeared to him.v. Patrick on Exodus, iii. 2.

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They were not now far from that Forbidden River.

"Akbar on his way ordered a fort to be built upon the Nilab, which he called Attock, which means in the Indian language Forbidden; for, by the superstition of the Hindoos, it was held unlawful to cross that river."- Dow's Hindostan.

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Resembling, she often thought, that people of Zinge. "The inhabitants of this country (Zinge) are never afflicted with sadness or melancholy on this subject the Sheikh Abu-al-Kheir-Azhari has the following distich: "Who is the man without care or sorrow (tell) that I may rub my hand to him.

(Behold) the Zingians, without care or sorrow, frolicksome with tipsiness and mirth."

"The philosophers have discovered that the cause of this cheerfulness proceeds from the influence of the star Soheil or Canopus, which rises over them every night.". Extract from a geographical Persian Manuscript called Heft Aklim, or the Seven Climates, translated by W. Ouseley, Esq.

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About two miles from Hussun Abdaul were the Royal

Gardens.

I am indebted for these particulars of Hussun Abdaul to the very interesting Introduction of Mr. Elphinstone's work upon Caubul.

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The

Putting to death some hundreds of those unfortunate lizards. "The lizard Stellio. The Arabs call it Hardun. Turks kill it, for they imagine that by declining the head it mimics them when they say their prayers."- Hasselquist.

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As the Prophet said of Damascus, "it was too delicious." 64 As you enter at that Bazar without the gate of Damascus, you see the Green Mosque, so called because it hath a steeple faced with green glazed bricks, which render it very resplendent; it is covered at top with a pavilion of the same stuff. The Turks say this mosque was made in that place, because Mahomet being come so far, would not enter the town, saying it was too delicious.". Thevenot. This reminds one of the following pretty passage in Isaac Walton: -"When I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence, that they were too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holidays."

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Would remind the Princess of that difference, &c. "Haroun Al Raschid, cinquieme Khalife' des Abassides, s'étant un jour brouillé avec une de ses maîtresses nommée Maridah, qu'il aimoit cependant jusqu'à l'excès, et cette mesintelligence ayant déjà duré quelque tems commença à s'ennuyer. Giafar Barmaki, son favori, qui s'en apperçût, commanda a Abbas ben Ahnaf, excellent Poète de ce tems là, de composer quelques vers sur le sujet de cette brouillerie. Ce Poète executa l'ordre de Giafar, qui fit chanter ces vers

par Moussali en presence du Khalife, et ce Prince fut tellement touché de la tendresse des vers du poëte et de la douceur de la voix du musicien qu'il alla aussi-tôt trouver Maridah, et fit sa paix avec elle.". D'Herbelot.

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Where the silken swing.

"The swing is a favourite pastime in the East, as promoting a circulation of air, extremely refreshing in those sultry climates."- Richardson.

"The swings are adorned with festoons.

This pastime is accompanied with music of voices and of instruments, hired

by the masters of the swings."

Thevenot.

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The basil tuft that waves

Its fragrant blossoms over graves.

"The women in Egypt go, at least two days in the week, to pray and weep at the sepulchres of the dead; and the custom then is to throw upon the tombs a sort of herb, which the Arabs call rihan, and which is our sweet basil." Maillet, Lett. 10.

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The mountain-herb that dyes
The tooth of the fawn like gold.

Niebuhr thinks this may be the herb which the Eastern alchymists look to as a means of making gold." Most of those alchymical enthusiasts think themselves sure of success, if they could but find out the herb, which gilds the teeth and gives a yellow colour to the flesh of the sheep that eat it.

Even the oil of this plant must be of a golden colour. It is called Haschischat ed dab."

Father Jerom Dandini, however, asserts that the teeth of the goats at Mount Libanus are of a silver colour; and adds, "this confirms me that which I observed in Candia; to wit, that the animals that live on Mount Ida eat a certain herb, which renders their teeth of a golden colour; which, according to my judgment, cannot otherwise proceed than from the mines which are under ground." - Dandini, Voyage to Mount Libanus.

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'Tis I that mingle in one sweet measure

The past, the present, and future of pleasure. "Whenever our pleasure arises from a succession of sounds, it is a perception of complicated nature, made up of a sensation of the present sound or note, and an idea or remembrance of the foregoing, while their mixture and concurrence produce such a mysterious delight, as neither could have produced alone. And it is often heightened by an anticipation of the succeeding notes. Thus Sense, Memory, and Imagination, are conjunctively employed." · Gerrard on Taste.

This is exactly the Epicurean theory of Pleasure, as explained by Cicero:-" Quocirca corpus gaudere tamdiu, dum præsentem sentiret voluptatem; animum et præsentem percipere pariter cum corpore et prospicere venientem, nec præteritam præterfluere sinere."

Madame de Stael accounts upon the same principle for the gratification we derive from rhyme :-" Elle est l'image de l'espérance et du souvenir. Un son nous fait désirer