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Excerpt from Ain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, No Now, Vol. 7
Such is the bathos caused by the Saja'-assonanee: in the music of the Arabic it contrasts strangely with the baldness of translation. The same is the case with the Koran, beautiful in the original and miserably dull in European languages it is like the glorious styleof the Anglican Version by the side of its bastard brothers in Hindo stani or Marathi; one of these marvels of stupidity translating the Lamb of God by God's little goat.
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