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The Calcutta Review July 1951

1951

The; supreme example of Shakespeare's parody of Euphuism however iS:provided by the funny speeches of Prince Hal and Falstaff in the first bgok of King Henry IV when Falstaff plays King the father"6 THE CALCUTTA REVIEW [Juts and taxes the truant son : For though the camomile the more it is trodden o'i the faster it grows yet youth the more it is wasted the sooner it wears. [...] And how beautifully Rumi in the first poem of the second volume of his Masnavi declares Adam took a single step into the region of the enjoyment of the animal spirit; (and) his separation from the high seat of the Garden became the punishment of his carnal soul. [...] As the poet says ' Hundreds of thousands of years the accursed Devil was a saint and the commander of the faithful; on account of the pride which he had he grappled with Adam and was put to shame like dung in the morning tide.' In the Quran Satan has been given the epithet of Rhannas2 and al-13aizabi has explained it as because he habitually draws back when a man thinks of God.' The evil spirit [...] And our poet has so nicely described the charateristics of Satan with the use of this term : The name that denotes the devils' becoming hidden from (men's) souls and going into that hole' is Rhanus (slinking back); for his Khanus is like the Khanus of the hedgehog—like the head of the hedgehog he hops in and out. [...] “ King of kings the Saviour.” -It sounds very much like “ Basileos Basileon Soter Megas ” (“ King of kings the great Saviour ”) of the coins of “ Soter Megas.” Here a question may arise that the Pallus.1 thene type of coins of Satrap Rajula differs from those of the horsman Zeus and the so-called Herakles type of the coins of “ Soter Megas.” Even the portraits on the obverse of the coins of
history
Pages
76
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Artifice in Shakespearean Comedies
1-18 Saroj N. Ray view
Sufi Concept of Satan
19-30 Harendrachandra Pal view
A Note on The Coins of “Soter Megas”
31-34 Paresh Das Gupta view
Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
35-44 Sukumar Ganguli view
The Theoretical Background of State-Financing of Private Enterprise
45-52 Arunkumar Dattagupta view
Round the World
53-57 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
58-60 M.B.B. view
Ourselves
61-62 unknown view
Official Notifications
63-73 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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