The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Частини 1 – 2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 768 стор. |
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... Appearance . . CHAPTER XII . The Moslem - Costume - Color - The Citizen - The Peasant - Religion -Death - Paradise - Daily Life - The Osmanli - The Mameluke CHAPTER XIII . Mahometanism - Star - worship- " People of the Book " -Parentage ...
... Appearance . . CHAPTER XII . The Moslem - Costume - Color - The Citizen - The Peasant - Religion -Death - Paradise - Daily Life - The Osmanli - The Mameluke CHAPTER XIII . Mahometanism - Star - worship- " People of the Book " -Parentage ...
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... appearance as a hollow square of infantry on the field of battle . We showed our colors in passing , a compliment which the fort did not condescend to return , and then stood out to sea against a heavy gale of wind . * We must hurry ...
... appearance as a hollow square of infantry on the field of battle . We showed our colors in passing , a compliment which the fort did not condescend to return , and then stood out to sea against a heavy gale of wind . * We must hurry ...
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... appearance of a swamp than of an archipelago . As the waters retire , vegetation seems to exude from every pore . Previous to its bath , the country , like Pelias , looked shrivelled , and faded , and worn out a few days after — and old ...
... appearance of a swamp than of an archipelago . As the waters retire , vegetation seems to exude from every pore . Previous to its bath , the country , like Pelias , looked shrivelled , and faded , and worn out a few days after — and old ...
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... appearance , and they say it was a fearful sight , to see that great multitude convulsively working against time . As a dying horse bites the ground in his agony , they tore up that great grave - 25,000 peo- ple perished , but the grim ...
... appearance , and they say it was a fearful sight , to see that great multitude convulsively working against time . As a dying horse bites the ground in his agony , they tore up that great grave - 25,000 peo- ple perished , but the grim ...
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... appearance , which would figure excellently well in a tableau as a Banshee . All these , and a thousand other quaint personages , are per- petually passing and repassing , with hand upon the heart as they meet an acquaintance , or on ...
... appearance , which would figure excellently well in a tableau as a Banshee . All these , and a thousand other quaint personages , are per- petually passing and repassing , with hand upon the heart as they meet an acquaintance , or on ...
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The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and ..., Частини 1 – 2 Eliot Warburton Повний перегляд - 1845 |
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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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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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?
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.