Universal Classics Library volume 14

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Universal Classics Library volume 14
Thomas Stackhouse
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Iflrttwn (Plato) is a type of wisdom.
218. Or: > When the Sun sinks it seems to rub its face in the dust.
219. This poem with the following, its reply, forms, perhaps, the only instance of a war-correspondence conducted in gazels. The Grand Vez/r Hrtfiz Pasha, having failed to recover Bagdad from the Persians, sent this gazel, begging for reinforcements, to his master, Murad IV. , at Stamboul.
220. Here again we have the equivoques on rukk, meaning at once the « Rook '> at Chess, and the " Chee
...k, >> thus rukh-be-rukh is both «Rook to Rook» and « Face to Face»; and on at for the « Knight » and the « Horse ** (I93)' The allusions to Chess in these lines, as well as those near the beginning of the Padishah's rejoinder, remind us of the famous letter of Nicepherus to Har«nu-'r-Resh/d, which called forth from that Khal/fa his yet more famous reply. The ^ueen presents a difficulty in these Turkish poems : to make an Oriental talk of a queen, not only as taking part in a battle (for the chess-board represents a battle-field, but as being the strongest com- batant, is absurd.

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