The Enchanted Horse It was the Feast of the New Year, the oldest and most splendid of all the feasts in the Kingdom of Persia, and the day had been spent by the king in the city of Schiraz, taking part in the magnificent spectacles prepared by his subjects to do honour to the festival.
It is this: that being rich, we are so poor; that being mighty, we can yet have nothing; that seeing, breathig, smelling, tasting all around us the impossible wealth and glory of this earth, feeling with an intolerable certitude that the whole structure of the enchanted life – the most fortunate, wealthy, good, and happy life that any man has ever known – is ours – is ours at once, immediately and forever, the moment that we choose to take a step, or stretch a hand, or say a word- we yet know th
" Books, indeed, endow us with a whole enchanted palace of thoughts.
If you're a Disney fan, you would know that "The Lion King" also had a sequel entitled "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride" and "Beauty and the Beast" had "Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.
The first time I saw my wife unveiled, when she had been brought to my house with the usual ceremonies, I was enchanted to find that I had not been deceived in regard to the account that had been given me of her beauty.
She fetched a napkin and laid in it the magic fruits from the enchanted garden, which sparkled and shone like the most beautiful jewels.
" Scheih Ibrahim immediately took a lute from a cup-board and gave it to the Persian, who began to play on it, singing the while with such skill and taste that the Caliph was enchanted.
The dervishes, who could not imagine what had become of him, were enchanted at his reappearance.
When he touched the ground, he rapped it with his foot; it opened, and we found ourselves in the enchanted palace, in the presence of the beautiful princess of the Ebony Isle.
You came here in a few hours because it was enchanted.
An Ass, having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on, to give them such beautiful voices.
But having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so enchanted with the sound, that they tried to imitate it; and, in trying to neigh, they forgot how to sing.
Then the flounder said to him, hark, you fisherman, I pray you, let me live, I am no flounder really, but an enchanted prince.
He led her out to dance, and was so enchanted with her beauty, that hethought no more of the other bride.
The mountain opened, and he went into a great enchanted castle, wherein chairs, tables, and benches were all hung with black.
" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock.
And it came to pass that he arrived before a castle which was enchanted.
" So she took him with her into her enchanted castle, where there were nothing but kittens who were her servants.
It springs from a fountain in the courtyard of an enchanted castle, but you will not be able to make your way to it, if I do not give you an iron wand and two small loaves of bread.
The snake, however, was an enchanted maiden, who rejoiced to see him, and said, have you come, oh, my deliverer.
