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Arabian Poetry: Extracts From The Lay of the Himyarites: On the Prosody of the Arabs

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[In the New Quarterly Magazine, for January and April, 1879, there appeared two excellent papers on "The Thousand and One Nights," from the pen of Mr. John Payne—author of "The Masque of Shadows," "The Poems of Francis Villon," and other well-known poetical works—who has been for some time engaged on a new translation (the first complete one) of the fascinating romances and tales comprised in that work. The following outline of the general principles of Arabian Prosody—including specimens of…

Arabian Poetry: Extracts From The Lay of the Himyarites: On the Prosody of the Arabs

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