The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Части 1–2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. CHAPTER XX . River Incidents - Scenerv - Eremites ... East Page 133 143 152 161 169 183 201 214 . 223 235 · CHAPTER XXX . The Pyramids - The Tombs - Midnight CONTENTS . vii.
Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. CHAPTER XX . River Incidents - Scenerv - Eremites ... East Page 133 143 152 161 169 183 201 214 . 223 235 · CHAPTER XXX . The Pyramids - The Tombs - Midnight CONTENTS . vii.
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Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. PREFACE . IMMUTABILITY is the most striking characteristic of the East : from the ancient strife of Cain and Abel , to the pre- sent struggle between the Crescent and the Cross ...
Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. PREFACE . IMMUTABILITY is the most striking characteristic of the East : from the ancient strife of Cain and Abel , to the pre- sent struggle between the Crescent and the Cross ...
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Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. of European life , with the silence and repose of the East , resembles that which we experience in passing from the gay and turbulent thoroughfares of Naples to the desolate ...
Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. of European life , with the silence and repose of the East , resembles that which we experience in passing from the gay and turbulent thoroughfares of Naples to the desolate ...
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... East , I had made myself familiar with their works , notwithstanding which , I found much novelty , as well as interest , in my own personal experience ; and I hoped to be fortunate enough to communicate some of that sense of interest ...
... East , I had made myself familiar with their works , notwithstanding which , I found much novelty , as well as interest , in my own personal experience ; and I hoped to be fortunate enough to communicate some of that sense of interest ...
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Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. all eagerness and hope , though these , their predecessors ... East . All these , in various groups , were scattered over the spacious upper deck , where there was no stain , or ...
Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. all eagerness and hope , though these , their predecessors ... East . All these , in various groups , were scattered over the spacious upper deck , where there was no stain , or ...
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Страница 74 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid...
Страница 219 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Страница 26 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Страница 96 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Страница 113 - Then comes a mightier silence, stern and strong, As of a world left empty of its throng, And the void weighs on us; and then we wake, And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along Twixt villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake.
Страница 22 - They have but fallen before us: for, one day, we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.
Страница 79 - Spare your remonstrances, replied the intrepid fanatic to his uncle and benefactor : " if they should place the sun on my right hand, and the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course.