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At the performance I perceived with dismay that all these had remained unnoticed, and I had to see imagine my horror! for example, that my Tannhauser in the contest of the singers shouted the hymn of Venus "Wer dich mit Gluth in seine Arme geschlossen, Was Liebe ist, weiss der, nur der allein!" at Elizabeth, the chastest of virgins, before a whole assembly of people.
And it so chanced that, on the very same night when Shams al-Din went in to his wife, Nur al-Din also went in to his wife the daughter of the Wazir of Bassorah; this being in accordance with the will of Almighty Allah, that He might deal the decrees of Destiny to His creatures.
But Ja'afar said, "Marvel not, O Commander of the Faithful, at this adventure, for it is not more wondrous than the History of the Wazir Nur al-Din Ali of Egypt and his brother Shams al-Din Mohammed. Quoth the Caliph, "Out with it; but what can be stranger than this story?"
Her father was Asaf Khan, who was brother of the Empress Nur Mahal, Jahangir's wife. She was thus the granddaughter of Itmâd-ud-daulah, Jahangir's Prime Minister, whose tomb, on the opposite bank of the river, will be described hereafter. In 1612, at the age of nineteen years she was married to Shah Jahan then Prince Khurram who, though hardly twenty-one, had already another wife.
To sneer at superficial differences is to lose all profit from intercourse with other peoples. Goethe is right, "Uberall lernt man nur von dem, den man liebt!" The argument is only all on our side when we are impervious to impressions and to other standards of manners and morals than our own. "Am Ende hangen wir doch ab Von Kreaturen die wir machten"
This portrait leaves out the temples and villas, ancient and modern, the terraces and pavilions edged with the lotus and overhung with vines and plane trees, the Shalmiar Bagh, or Garden of Delight, and the Mishat Bagh, or Garden of Pleasure, where wine-loving Jehángír and his beautiful consort Núr Jahán, the Light of the World, luxuriated in the summers of long ago.
I was shocked, and answered in the language of the Catechism: "O Margaret! 'There is but one only living and true God." She hung her head, then nodded it, and with the emphasis of a judge who had weighed all the evidence, said: "I am sure I ha' hearn tell o' more nur one of em." A young theological student came sometimes to stay over Sabbath and assist in the school.
The most notable of the women, and one who would have taken a prominent part in affairs in whatever country or in whatever generation it had pleased the Almighty to place her, was Nur Jehan, sultana of the Mogul Jehanghir.
Take notice I am affronted in your Lodgings for you, Bellmour You take me for an Ass therefore meet me to morrow Morning about five, with your Sword in your Hand, behind Southampton House. Bel. Dull Animal! The Gods cou'd ne'er decree So bright a Maid shou'd be possest by thee. SCENE I. A Palace. Enter Nurse with a Light. Nur.
Then the Caliph went up to the door of the pavilion and knocked a gentle knock, whereupon said Nur al-Din," O Shaykh Ibrahim, some one taps at the door." "Who goes there?" cried the Shaykh and the Caliph replied, "It is I, O Shaykh Ibrahim!"
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