The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Части 1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - Всего страниц: 768 |
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... light - hearted yet gallant bearing of the sailor is no accident ; it issues naturally from his stirring and eventful career , from the exhilarating air that he breathes , the freedom from petty cares that he enjoys , and from the ...
... light - hearted yet gallant bearing of the sailor is no accident ; it issues naturally from his stirring and eventful career , from the exhilarating air that he breathes , the freedom from petty cares that he enjoys , and from the ...
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... light of immortality seemed already shining , were gazing mournfully on those northern skies , which she was never to behold again - at least with an upward glance . Her help- lessness , and youth , and beauty seemed to exercise an ...
... light of immortality seemed already shining , were gazing mournfully on those northern skies , which she was never to behold again - at least with an upward glance . Her help- lessness , and youth , and beauty seemed to exercise an ...
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... light supper , at eleven the candles are extinguished ; you tumble into your berth , and the day is done . I have dwelt thus long on the details of a modern sea - life , be- cause a prejudice exists against the long voyage , which I ...
... light supper , at eleven the candles are extinguished ; you tumble into your berth , and the day is done . I have dwelt thus long on the details of a modern sea - life , be- cause a prejudice exists against the long voyage , which I ...
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... light sailor's jacket feels oppressive , and the cactus , aloe , and gerani- um , are flowering in profusion wherever they can find place on the steep and rugged rock . We sailed as the evening gun was fired . The coast of Bar- bary ...
... light sailor's jacket feels oppressive , and the cactus , aloe , and gerani- um , are flowering in profusion wherever they can find place on the steep and rugged rock . We sailed as the evening gun was fired . The coast of Bar- bary ...
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... light garment , that scarce concealed their grace- ful forms , folded as a turban , they swim from grove to grove , the quiet lake scarcely rippling round their dark bosoms . This picture is of rare occurrence , however the inundation ...
... light garment , that scarce concealed their grace- ful forms , folded as a turban , they swim from grove to grove , the quiet lake scarcely rippling round their dark bosoms . This picture is of rare occurrence , however the inundation ...
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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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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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?
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.