"My spirit is tossed with a thousand tormenting things, and my thoughts destroy one another the same moment they are conceived, to make way for more; and so long as my body suffers by the impressions of my mind, how shall I be able to hold paper, or a reed to write."
The History of Aboulhassen Ali Ebn Becar, and Schemselnihar, Favourite of Caliph Haroun Alraschid [from Arabian Nights' Entertainments]
81 entries in ESTC (1706, 1712, 1713, 1715, 1717, 1718, 1721, 1722, 1725, 1726, 1728, 1730, 1736, 1744, 1745, 1748, 1753, 1754, 1763, 1767, 1772, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1789, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800).<br>
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See Antoine Galland's <u>Mille et une Nuit</u> (1704-1717); translated into English from 1706 to 1721 (six volumes published in French and translated into English by 1706; 1717 vols. xi and xii published and translated).<br>
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Some text from <u>Tales of the East: Comprising the Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin</u>, ed. Henry Weber, 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1812). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=EwEyAQAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>Arabian Nights Entertainments</u>, ed. Robert L. Mack (Oxford: OUP, 1995). [Mack bases his text on Weber's <u>Tales of the East</u>]<br>
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