The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Части 1–2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... nose and eye revolt , meet one at every turn , and one is always turning . The stateliest streets are not above twelve feet wide ; and as the upper stories arch over them toward one another , only a CHAP . VIII . ] 43 CAIRO .
... nose and eye revolt , meet one at every turn , and one is always turning . The stateliest streets are not above twelve feet wide ; and as the upper stories arch over them toward one another , only a CHAP . VIII . ] 43 CAIRO .
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... turned , like her , to stone , not even the naturalists - those mythologists of phenomena - have satis- factorily explained . One of the sights which amused me most was a chicken - hatch- ing oven . This useful establishment is at some ...
... turned , like her , to stone , not even the naturalists - those mythologists of phenomena - have satis- factorily explained . One of the sights which amused me most was a chicken - hatch- ing oven . This useful establishment is at some ...
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... turning with most hen - like anxiety . The heat was about 100 ° , the smell like that of Harrowgate water , and the floor covered with egg - shells and struggling chicklings . The same heat is maintained day and night , and the same ...
... turning with most hen - like anxiety . The heat was about 100 ° , the smell like that of Harrowgate water , and the floor covered with egg - shells and struggling chicklings . The same heat is maintained day and night , and the same ...
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... wide East , until it waved upon the towers of Jerusalem , * " Sir Philip Sidney's life was poetry turned into action . ” — CAMPBELL and saw its green folds reflected in the waters of 72 [ CHAP . XIL THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS .
... wide East , until it waved upon the towers of Jerusalem , * " Sir Philip Sidney's life was poetry turned into action . ” — CAMPBELL and saw its green folds reflected in the waters of 72 [ CHAP . XIL THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS .
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... turned . From that hour , it began to shrink , and is now rapidly subsiding into the narrow channel whence it overflowed . Would that we could find a pure and uniform faith following upon its retiring tide , as the harvest pursues the ...
... turned . From that hour , it began to shrink , and is now rapidly subsiding into the narrow channel whence it overflowed . Would that we could find a pure and uniform faith following upon its retiring tide , as the harvest pursues the ...
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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.