The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Teile 1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 768 Seiten |
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... Palace of Shoobra - Oriental Gardens- Odalisques - Tombs of the Mamelukes - Petrified Forest - Chicken Ovens - Feast of Lanterns - Doseh - Slave Market . CHAPTER X. The Hareem - Wives - Their Seclusion - Fatima - Vengeance CHAPTER XI ...
... Palace of Shoobra - Oriental Gardens- Odalisques - Tombs of the Mamelukes - Petrified Forest - Chicken Ovens - Feast of Lanterns - Doseh - Slave Market . CHAPTER X. The Hareem - Wives - Their Seclusion - Fatima - Vengeance CHAPTER XI ...
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... palace of the Grand Master , now that of the British governor . The others are converted into barracks ; and probably the costumes of their olden time did not differ more from one another than those of its present military occupants ...
... palace of the Grand Master , now that of the British governor . The others are converted into barracks ; and probably the costumes of their olden time did not differ more from one another than those of its present military occupants ...
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... palace of the Pasha , his hareem , and a battery ; the left , a long low sweep of land , alive with windmills , the city in the centre : to the westward , the flat , sandy shore stretches monotonously away to the horizon ; to the ...
... palace of the Pasha , his hareem , and a battery ; the left , a long low sweep of land , alive with windmills , the city in the centre : to the westward , the flat , sandy shore stretches monotonously away to the horizon ; to the ...
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... palace , and the commencement of a magnificent mosque , from the terraced roof of which there is perhaps the finest view in the world . All Lower Egypt lies spread out , as in a map , before you — one great emerald set in the golden ...
... palace , and the commencement of a magnificent mosque , from the terraced roof of which there is perhaps the finest view in the world . All Lower Egypt lies spread out , as in a map , before you — one great emerald set in the golden ...
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... palace and garden of Mehemet Ali . We rode along under a noble avenue of syca- mores , just wide enough to preserve their shade , and , at the end of three miles , came to a low and unpretending gateway , pic- turesque , however , and ...
... palace and garden of Mehemet Ali . We rode along under a noble avenue of syca- mores , just wide enough to preserve their shade , and , at the end of three miles , came to a low and unpretending gateway , pic- turesque , however , and ...
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Alexandria ancient appearance Arab arrived Baalbec banks beautiful Bedouin beneath Beyrout blue boat bright Cairo camels carpet cataract Christian church cliffs Constantinople convent crew Damascus dark desert distance dragoman dress East Egypt Egyptian Emir England English eyes faith feet gardens Greece Greek groves hand hareem hills hippopotamus horse hour hyæna inhabitants island Jerusalem Jews land Lebanon light lonely look luxury Mahmoud Malta Mamelukes Maronite Mehemet Mehemet Ali miles morning Moslem Mount mountain never night Nile Nubia once palace palm palm-trees Pasha passed picturesque pilgrims pipe plain pleasant pyramids river rocks rode round ruins sails sands Saracen scarcely scene scenery seemed servants shade shadow Sheikh shore silence slave soon spirit steep stood Syria temple tent Thebes tion tombs towers town traveller tribes turban Turkish Turks valley village Wady Halfa walls wandered waves wild women
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 84 - 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 160 - So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in heaven.
Seite 22 - Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers today; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.
Seite 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...
Seite 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?
Seite 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...
Seite 209 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
Seite 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.