The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Teile 1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 768 Seiten |
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... Tent - The Boat - Acherusia -Memphis -- CHAPTER XVII . Music - On the Desert - On the Nile - Songs CHAPTER XVIII . Valley of the Nile - Navigation - Scenery - Exuberance of Animal Life -Conscription - Funeral - Night Storm - Sugar ...
... Tent - The Boat - Acherusia -Memphis -- CHAPTER XVII . Music - On the Desert - On the Nile - Songs CHAPTER XVIII . Valley of the Nile - Navigation - Scenery - Exuberance of Animal Life -Conscription - Funeral - Night Storm - Sugar ...
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... tent on the Plain of Mamré , " and the Egyptian still cultivates his river - given soil in the manner practised by the subjects of the Pharaohs . Elsewhere , we can but dimly discern the actors and the scenery of the Elder World through ...
... tent on the Plain of Mamré , " and the Egyptian still cultivates his river - given soil in the manner practised by the subjects of the Pharaohs . Elsewhere , we can but dimly discern the actors and the scenery of the Elder World through ...
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... tents of the Bedouin and the palaces of the despot , that England preferred honor to advantage . Battles , since then , have been fought , and been forgotten - nations have come and gone , and left no trace behind them - but the memory ...
... tents of the Bedouin and the palaces of the despot , that England preferred honor to advantage . Battles , since then , have been fought , and been forgotten - nations have come and gone , and left no trace behind them - but the memory ...
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... tents and troops , and muskets piled , and horses ready saddled ; but within , all was peace and silence . A venerable gardener , with a long white beard , received us at the entrance , and conducted us through the fairy - like garden ...
... tents and troops , and muskets piled , and horses ready saddled ; but within , all was peace and silence . A venerable gardener , with a long white beard , received us at the entrance , and conducted us through the fairy - like garden ...
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... tents and the dark foliage ; not only did they glitter on every bough , and on a thou- sand banners ; but scaffoldings were ... tent was crowded to excess by performers or aspirants in a most singular religious ceremony : a ring of men ...
... tents and the dark foliage ; not only did they glitter on every bough , and on a thou- sand banners ; but scaffoldings were ... tent was crowded to excess by performers or aspirants in a most singular religious ceremony : a ring of men ...
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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.