Zillah: A Tale of the Holy City, Том 4H. Colburn, 1828 |
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Alexandria amid Antigonus appearance Araboth Arabs arms army array assault banditti Barjona beautiful became beheld beloved besieging bosom Cleopatra companion cried dark daugh daughter dearest deep delight desperate earth Egyptian enemy Ephraim Esau escape exclaimed eyes father fear feeling Felix fierce forward friends Gabriel goddess hand harp head heart Heaven Hebrew Herod Holy City honour horses host imagined implore instantly Israelites Jareb the Revenger Jerusalem jewels Jews Judæa Judas Maccabeus King Lilla lofty look Lord loud lover Maccabee Mamzer Mark Antony ment Micah mind Mount Mount Sion Nabal never once Pagan palace passion peril Pharisee pirate present priests prison psaltery recovered Red Sea rendered Roman Rome Sagan Salome Salvius seemed sepulchre shouts sight silence soldiers solemn Solyma song Sosius spirit sword Temple tent thou thought tion tomb towers troops trumpets uttered Valley voice walls whole wild wilderness Zaida Zillah
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Страница 47 - Thou art my hiding-place, Thou shalt preserve me from trouble, Thou shalt compass me about with songa of deliverance. Selah.
Страница 144 - Let me no longer," said the 10. Zillah, IV, 144: "The Dashing Pharisee, so called, because he crawled along apart and in humility, the heel of one foot touching the great toe of the other, and neither foot being lifted from the ground, so that his toes were dashed against the stones.
Страница 308 - Little Paradise bestowed upon it by Lilla. Not less healthful than aromatic, the very air delighted the senses and exhilarated the soul ; the fruits were more abundant and exquisite than in any other region ; and the palm-trees peculiar to this happy spot, bore yellow, red, and purple dates, equally grateful to the sight, and delicious to the palate. At a few miles distance was a seaport town, the emporium of the rich spices and drugs, shipped by the Arabian merchants, one of whom had built a stately...
Страница 48 - Lord had sent an angel to comfort and deliver her ; even as, in the olden times, he had miraculously rescued divers of his chosen people in the hour of peril and tribulation. Her heart thrilled with a solemn reverent fear ; she sunk upon her knees, and stealing timid glances around her, expected every moment to encounter some celestial visitant.
Страница 315 - ... turns up with an Orthodox beard. This tempering of Jew with pagan (again see Matthew Arnold) gives us the author's ideal Judaic type, the Jew dedicated to the practice of an all-embracing philanthropy and the maintenance of a universal toleration. "Let me not imagine . . ." says the new-bearded Felix," that I am adoring the Deity, when I am only falling prostrate before my own opinion, enshrined in pride, conceit, and obstinacy.
Страница 126 - The lips of knowledge are as a precious jewel ; prudent and sensible speech is valuable and honourable, Prov. xx. 15. A fair woman without discretion, is like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout ; she makes but a poor and fantastic appearance, and debaseth her comeliness by her filthy practices, Prov.
Страница 48 - ... descending to her feet, allowed nothing but her eyes to be seen. In her right hand she held a bag, which she threw upon the floor as she entered. Neither her garb, her deportment, nor the mode...
Страница 52 - You are handsome, very handsome," said the stranger, leisurely surveying Zillah, before she proceeded farther to unfold the purport of her visit — " of a stately and dignified presence, but little adapted, as I should have surmised, to the taste of Mark Antony. A thousand times has he sworn to me that he could never love any one taller than myself; but his vulgar, sensual soul is incapable of truth or constancy ; and even in my own capital, nay, in my own palace, he dares to forget his allegiance...
Страница 51 - ... dazzled, not less by the effulgence of her beauty, than by the magnificence of the jewels with which her whole figure was emblazed. Appearing to be about thirty years of age, she united all the elastic freshness of youth to the rich maturity of riper charms. Even for an Egyptian, she was dark, but still the blood blushed through the exquisitely soft and delicate texture of her skin, while her features were absolutely faultless, and her figure cast in the finest mould of symmetry. But as Zillah...
Страница 195 - ... they rent their clothes and made great lamentations, and cast ashes upon their heads, and fell down to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried towards heaven.