From Pharaoh to FellahWells Gardner, Darton, 1888 - 187 страници |
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... beauty , and small trace of antiquity : so he hurries on to Cairo , and can see nothing in the commercial capital of Egypt but the commonplace resort of Levantine usurers . And yet , if he would linger a little , he would gain all the ...
... beauty , and small trace of antiquity : so he hurries on to Cairo , and can see nothing in the commercial capital of Egypt but the commonplace resort of Levantine usurers . And yet , if he would linger a little , he would gain all the ...
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... beauty , were not without attraction , due to their position on the rugged promontory , beneath which were still to be seen the remains of what perhaps were catacombs , and a passage which may have led to some subter- ranean refuge ...
... beauty , were not without attraction , due to their position on the rugged promontory , beneath which were still to be seen the remains of what perhaps were catacombs , and a passage which may have led to some subter- ranean refuge ...
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... beauty where the Turtle saw only squalor and misery , and where the Scribbler saw neither . " Your beauty , " he said , " is nothing but your love for novelty . Prettier effects of light and shade , more beautiful combinations of colour ...
... beauty where the Turtle saw only squalor and misery , and where the Scribbler saw neither . " Your beauty , " he said , " is nothing but your love for novelty . Prettier effects of light and shade , more beautiful combinations of colour ...
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... beauty of the scenery ? Where does Cook take them to ? To Paris , where their worst bonnet - strings can compare not unfavour- ably with the flashy Saint - Chapelle . To the Rhine , where they look at least as graceful as the newly ...
... beauty of the scenery ? Where does Cook take them to ? To Paris , where their worst bonnet - strings can compare not unfavour- ably with the flashy Saint - Chapelle . To the Rhine , where they look at least as graceful as the newly ...
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... beauty or in their agreeable manners . If you speak of the Nile , pray where is there a more magnificent river ? What water was ever purer or more delicious ? The very mud that it carries along in its inundations fattens the land a ...
... beauty or in their agreeable manners . If you speak of the Nile , pray where is there a more magnificent river ? What water was ever purer or more delicious ? The very mud that it carries along in its inundations fattens the land a ...
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Abydos admit Alexandria Arab Arabi asked Assouan Asyoot banks bazaar beauty Boolak build Cairo Canal capital Church Citadel Cleopatra conqueror Copt course Credit Foncier Crichton cultivation dahabeeyah descendants desert dynasty Egyptian Egyptian history English European father Fayoum Fellah Fellaheen Fostat Ghizeh Girgeh give Government Greek Hyksos idea Ismail Joseph Jussef Karnac Khafra Khan Khalili king kourbash land of Egypt land of Goshen later look Luxor Memphis MONTBARD mosque Mudir Mummy myth Nabob native never Nile Osiris party Pasha pass perhaps period Pharaoh Prince probably Ptolemy Pyramids railway Ramses Ramses II recognise river Sakkarah Saladin Sara Scribbler seems Sekenen Ra Seti Sheik el Beled Shepheard's sight Sketcher Sphinx stands statue steamer Sultan Hassan taxation taxes tell temple Thebes thou to-day tomb town Turk Turtle Tutmes Wady Halfa youth
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Страница 164 - Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Страница 159 - And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee : the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell : and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
Страница 151 - IT flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands, — Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young...
Страница 165 - Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Страница 149 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Страница 164 - Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Страница 164 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs: and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Страница 159 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Страница 52 - The Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled: Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. "Who'll tell me my secret, The ages have kept? — I awaited the seer While they slumbered and slept: "The fate of the man-child, The meaning of man; Known fruit of the unknown; Daedalian plan; Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep; Life death overtaking; Deep underneath deep?
Страница 164 - Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships ; and his border shall be unto Zidon.