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" ... others say she was a real woman). As soon as they saw her, they fell in love with her, and endeavoured to prevail on her to satisfy their desires; but she flew up again to heaven, whither the two angels also returned, but were not admitted. However,... "
The Koran; commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed: tr. with notes, to which ... - Page 19
1825
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Bahar-danush: Or, Garden of Knowledge. An Oriental Romance, Volume 2

'Ināyat Āllāh - 1799 - 344 pages
...grief for a lover's abfence, was undifcernible. Such was the raging of the waves, that even the fifh Babel, where they are to remain till the day of judgment....he may go to them and hear their voice, but cannot fee them. This ftory, Mahummud took from the Perfian magi, who mention two rebellious angels of the...
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The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, the ..., Volume 1

1841 - 664 pages
...human passions, and sent down upon the earth to be tempted : they both sinned ; and, being permitted to choose whether they would be punished in this life or in the other, chose the former ; but they were sent down not merely to experience temptation, being also appointed...
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Selections from the Ḳur-án, with an interwoven comm; tr., arranged, and ...

Edward William Lane - 1843 - 336 pages
...human passions, and sent down upon the earth to be tempted. They both sinned ; and, being permitted to choose whether they would be punished in this life or in the other, chose the former. But they were sent down not merely to experience temptation ; being also appointed...
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Original memoranda,etc

Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 pages
...desires, but she flew up again to heaven, whither the two angels also returned, but were not admitted. However, on the intercession of a certain pious man, they were allowed to chuse whether they would be punished in this life, or in the other ; whereupon they chose the former,...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 pages
...were not admitted. However, on the intercession of a certain pious man, they were allowed to chuse whether they would be punished in this life, or in...judgment. They add, that if a man has a fancy to learn magie, he may " A desert pelican had built her nest In that deep solitude, "&c. — Thula/ψ, vi JWW...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Original memoranda, etc

Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 pages
...desires, but she flew up again to heaven, whither the two angels also returned, but were not admitted. However, on the intercession of a certain pious man, they were allowed to chuse whether they would be punished in this life, or in the other ; whereupon they chose the former,...
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The Anvár-i Suhailí, Or The Lights of Canopus: Being the Persian Version of ...

Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī - 1854 - 818 pages
...desires ; but she flew up again to heaven, whither the two angels also returned, but were not admitted. However, on the intercession of a certain pious man,...till the day of judgment. They add, that if a man lias a fancy to learn magic, ho may go to them COUFLCT. That mole is placed npon her chin, a tempting...
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The Anvár-i Suhailí, Or The Lights of Canopus: Being the Persian Version of ...

Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī - 1854 - 698 pages
...desires; but she flew up again to heaven, whither the two angels also returned, but were not admitted. However, on the intercession of a certain pious man,...or in the other; whereupon they chose the former, ami now suffer punishment accordingly in Babel, where they are to remain till the day of judgment....
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The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed

1856 - 692 pages
...desires ; but she flew up again to heaven, whither the two angels also returned, bat were not admitted. However on the intercession of a certain pious man,...them, and hear their voice, but cannot see them.' This story Mohammed took directly from the Persian Magi, who mention two rebellious angels of the same...
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The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed : Translated Into English ...

George Sale - 1856 - 692 pages
...desires; but she flew up again to heaven, whither the two angels also returned, but «ere not admitted. However on the intercession of a certain pious man,...allowed to choose whether they would be punished in this lile. or in the other ; whereupon they chose the former, and now suffer punishment accordinglv in Babel,...
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