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Quotation from The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I) by Anonymous; translated by Edward William Lane
“Eloquence, with them, is lawful magic: it exercises over their minds an irresistible influence.”
The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Notes to Chapter I, Note 18 (On the Influence of Eloquence and Tales upon the Arabs), trans. Edward William Lane
Lane defends the plausibility of the frame, in which a tale overcomes a cruel resolve, by describing Arab devotion to poetry and storytelling.
Citation: "Eloquence, with them, is lawful magic: it exercises over their minds an irresistible influence." — Anonymous; translated by Edward William Lane, The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Notes to Chapter I, Note 18 (On the Influence of Eloquence and Tales upon the Arabs), trans. Edward William Lane. (id lane-thousand-and-one-nights-q7)
Portrait: Edward William Lane, Richard J. Lane, Public domain.
