Mantic

Meanwhile also I keep putting into shape some of that Mantic which however would never do to publish.

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No; but something more yet: and better, for he tells me his Print of the Mantic is finisht, 'in proofs,' and will be out in about a Month: and he will send me one.

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Mantic is, the stories about Mahmud: and these are the best in the Book.

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I should not wish him to do so if there were any chance of your ever doing it; but I don't think you will help on the old Pantheist, and De Tassy really, after what he is doing for the Mantic, deserves to make the acquaintance of this remarkable little Fellow.

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Attar's Doctrine seems to me only Jami and Jelaleddin (of whom I have poked out a little from the MS. you bought for me), but his Mantic has, like Salaman, the advantage of having a Story to hang all upon; and some of his illustrative Stories are very agreeable: better than any of the others I have seen.

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To-day I have been writing twenty pages of a metrical Sketch of the Mantic, for such uses as I told you of.

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Sprenger also mentions as one separate Book what is part of the Mantic -- and main part -- the _Haft wady_.

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Oh! how I should like to read the Mantic with you!

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The Partridge in the Mantic tells something of the same; he digs up and swallows Rubies which turn his Blood to Fire inside him and sparkle out of his Eyes and Bill.

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Garcin de Tassy tells me he has printed four thousand lines of the Mantic.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846