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Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: Title Page and Front Matter

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As the following translations were attempted at different times and with different impressions, their execution is, no doubt, very unequal: in general they will, I trust, be found as literal as the nature of two languages, so little resembling each other in their structure, will admit; in some few instances I have indulged myself in a greater latitude, and have given rather an imitation than a version;—in such a manner, however, I hope, as not in any place to have lost sight of the original…

Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: Title Page and Front Matter

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