The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Части 1–2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 768 страници |
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... scarcely ob- tained in our conservatories - the wild animals , only known to our menageries , and the wayside flowers , that rival our most choice exotics - all these are pleasant incidents in the pastoral mode of life . In the cities ...
... scarcely ob- tained in our conservatories - the wild animals , only known to our menageries , and the wayside flowers , that rival our most choice exotics - all these are pleasant incidents in the pastoral mode of life . In the cities ...
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... scarcely fear , however , that the reader of the Arabian Nights will object to hear of Viziers , Sultans , Cairo and Damascus ; instead of Wezeers , Sooltauns , Masr , and El Sham . Finally I have to apologize for apologizing at such a ...
... scarcely fear , however , that the reader of the Arabian Nights will object to hear of Viziers , Sultans , Cairo and Damascus ; instead of Wezeers , Sooltauns , Masr , and El Sham . Finally I have to apologize for apologizing at such a ...
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... scarcely an anxious or a gloomy brow . Every one finds a listener , and , still more easily , does every one find communicativeness . Information on every sub- ject that can interest the traveller only waits an audience . You will hear ...
... scarcely an anxious or a gloomy brow . Every one finds a listener , and , still more easily , does every one find communicativeness . Information on every sub- ject that can interest the traveller only waits an audience . You will hear ...
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... scarcely anything to re- mind us of our imprisonment ; and , except for the silent sailor , at the restless wheel , we might fancy ourselves at the pump- room at Bath , or on the chain - pier at Brighton . In the care - free idleness of ...
... scarcely anything to re- mind us of our imprisonment ; and , except for the silent sailor , at the restless wheel , we might fancy ourselves at the pump- room at Bath , or on the chain - pier at Brighton . In the care - free idleness of ...
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... Scarcely a particle of vegetation shaded the brown , burning rock . Almost all the soil upon the island has been brought from Sicily , and is retained in little trays or shelves of terraces , built up with dull grey stones . We rode by ...
... Scarcely a particle of vegetation shaded the brown , burning rock . Almost all the soil upon the island has been brought from Sicily , and is retained in little trays or shelves of terraces , built up with dull grey stones . We rode by ...
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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.