The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Частини 1 – 2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 768 стор. |
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... 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 - trucks were quite ob . trusive ; but ...
... 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 - trucks were quite ob . trusive ; but ...
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... ruins beneath her thunder , and a nation , containing one third of earth's 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 ...
... ruins beneath her thunder , and a nation , containing one third of earth's 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 ...
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... haven of our search . I stood upon the modern Pharos , and as my eyes wandered over Alexandria , to which the ancient city " has bequeathed nothing but its ruins and its name , " I 22 [ CHAP . ▽ THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS .
... haven of our search . I stood upon the modern Pharos , and as my eyes wandered over Alexandria , to which the ancient city " has bequeathed nothing but its ruins and its name , " I 22 [ CHAP . ▽ THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS .
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Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. nothing but its ruins and its name , " I could observe few traces * of what it once had been - the emporium of the East , the seat of Empire , the centre of learning and ...
Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel Eliot Warburton. nothing but its ruins and its name , " I could observe few traces * of what it once had been - the emporium of the East , the seat of Empire , the centre of learning and ...
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... ruins of cities , palm- forests and green savannahs , gardens , and palaces , and groves of olive . On one side , the boundless desert , with its pyramids ; on the other , the land of Goshen , with its luxuriant plains , stretching far ...
... ruins of cities , palm- forests and green savannahs , gardens , and palaces , and groves of olive . On one side , the boundless desert , with its pyramids ; on the other , the land of Goshen , with its luxuriant plains , stretching far ...
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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.