The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Части 1–2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... inhabitants were rushing about among the ruins , vainly seeking for their dead . No one seemed to find anything they wanted ; cyclopean portmanteaus , " to be opened at Calcutta , " presented themselves freely ; saddlery and bullock ...
... inhabitants were rushing about among the ruins , vainly seeking for their dead . No one seemed to find anything they wanted ; cyclopean portmanteaus , " to be opened at Calcutta , " presented themselves freely ; saddlery and bullock ...
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... inhabitants , bowed down before her . * But to turn to details of that sea - life which any of my read- ers , who have not already experienced , may calculate upon hav- ing to live ere long in these amphibious days . Our time flows on ...
... inhabitants , bowed down before her . * But to turn to details of that sea - life which any of my read- ers , who have not already experienced , may calculate upon hav- ing to live ere long in these amphibious days . Our time flows on ...
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... inhabitants , not unsuc- cessfully imitating life ashore . Merry groups of children are playing about as if on a grass - plot . Twos and threes of men are walking the decks for exercise , as eagerly as if they'd never reach the bowsprit ...
... inhabitants , not unsuc- cessfully imitating life ashore . Merry groups of children are playing about as if on a grass - plot . Twos and threes of men are walking the decks for exercise , as eagerly as if they'd never reach the bowsprit ...
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... inhabitants - a legacy which does not tend to diminish their number . Many of the women are very beautiful , combining the gazelle eye of the east with the rich tresses of the north , and the statues- que profile of Greece and Italy ...
... inhabitants - a legacy which does not tend to diminish their number . Many of the women are very beautiful , combining the gazelle eye of the east with the rich tresses of the north , and the statues- que profile of Greece and Italy ...
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... inhabitants to be homes The palaces are magnificent , and appear the more imposing from the deep silence that invests their mysterious- looking walls . Grass and rank weeds are growing in the streets , which echo to your horse's hoof ...
... inhabitants to be homes The palaces are magnificent , and appear the more imposing from the deep silence that invests their mysterious- looking walls . Grass and rank weeds are growing in the streets , which echo to your horse's hoof ...
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Alexandria ancient appearance Arab arrived banks beautiful Bedouin beneath Beyrout boat bright Cairo camels carpet cataract CHAPTER Christian church cliffs coffee Constantinople convent crew dark desert distance dragoman Egypt Egyptian Emir English eyes faith feet gardens Greek groves hand hareem hills hippopotamus horse hour hyæna Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants island Jaffa Jerusalem Jews land Lebanon light lonely looked luxury Mahmoud Mamelukes Maronite Mehemet Mehemet Ali Meroë miles morning Moslem Mount mountain never night Nile Nubia once palace Palestine palm-trees palms Pasha passed picturesque pilgrims pipe plain pyramids river rocks rode round ruins sails sands Saracen scarcely scene scenery seemed servants shade shadow Sheikh shore Sidon silent soon spirit steep stood strange Syrian temple tent Thebes tion tombs towers town traveller tribes turban Turkish Turks valley village Wady Halfa walls wandered waves wild wind women
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Страница 198 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Страница 182 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
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.