The Nilometer and the Sacred Soil: A Diary of a Tour Through Egypt, Palestine, and SyriaCarleton, 1869 - 316 páginas |
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... entirely an after - thought ; as the idea forced itself upon my mind that , with only my written volume , a year's loaning would scarcely suffice to satisfy the demands of my numerous friends . There are probably irregularities of ...
... entirely an after - thought ; as the idea forced itself upon my mind that , with only my written volume , a year's loaning would scarcely suffice to satisfy the demands of my numerous friends . There are probably irregularities of ...
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... entirely covered . To attain the most elevated part of our route needed four more horses , twelve in all . It is a plain , six miles in length , encircled by the loftiest peaks of Cenis , and embel- lished with a beautiful lake , whose ...
... entirely covered . To attain the most elevated part of our route needed four more horses , twelve in all . It is a plain , six miles in length , encircled by the loftiest peaks of Cenis , and embel- lished with a beautiful lake , whose ...
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... entirely Arabic , with a number of little mosques and a few pretty Arabian fountains ; and we particu- larly admired a mosque , so very picturesque , with its stone door and its handsome clump of trees . Then , leaving on our left high ...
... entirely Arabic , with a number of little mosques and a few pretty Arabian fountains ; and we particu- larly admired a mosque , so very picturesque , with its stone door and its handsome clump of trees . Then , leaving on our left high ...
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... entirely destroyed in 1829 , to give place to the new mosque of Mohammed Ali . Our first visit after passing under the heavy doors of the Citadel , where we were saluted by soldiers pre- senting arms , was to this elegant mosque ...
... entirely destroyed in 1829 , to give place to the new mosque of Mohammed Ali . Our first visit after passing under the heavy doors of the Citadel , where we were saluted by soldiers pre- senting arms , was to this elegant mosque ...
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... entirely aft of the helm or tiller , on which a similar sail , less than a quarter the size of the foresail , is lashed in the same manner , and the sheet runs through a project- ing boom from the stern . She has twelve oars , and a ...
... entirely aft of the helm or tiller , on which a similar sail , less than a quarter the size of the foresail , is lashed in the same manner , and the sheet runs through a project- ing boom from the stern . She has twelve oars , and a ...
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The Nilometer and the Sacred Soil: A Diary of a Tour Through Egypt ... Kate Kraft,Publisher G W Carleton & Co No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2021 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abou Simbel admiration afternoon Alexandria Aline ancient Anti-Lebanon Arabs arrived backsheesh Balbek beautiful Bedouins boat breakfast breeze built Cairo cataract cloth columns commenced Consul Copt covered Crocodile crowd dahabeeh Damascus deck dinner donkeys dragoman edifice Egypt Egyptian eight encampment English Ephrath Estella eyes feet flowers Fostat four gardens gentlemen Girgeh half-past handsome Henry Beadel hills Holy horses hundred Jerusalem Joseph Karnak king ladies leaving light look lunch Luxor marble Messrs miles Mohammed El-Adli monuments morning mosque Mount Mount Gerizim mountains Mussulman Mustapha night Nile o'clock palace party passed plain Pyramids Rameses Rameses II remained returned ride river rock Rogers ruins sailing Saladin Samian wine sculptures shade shore side Siout soon steamer stones stopped surrounded Syria temple tents Thebes to-day tombs took trees valley village voyage walk walls weather wind yards yawl
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Página 19 - Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 16 Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die...
Página 18 - What, silent still? And silent all? Ah no ! The voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall And answer, 'Let one living head, But one arise - we come, we come !' 'Tis but the living who are dumb.
Página 19 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks— They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords and native ranks The only hope of courage dwells: But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad.
Página 18 - And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now — The heroic bosom beats no more! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?
Página 229 - And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
Página 17 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'
Página 17 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they?
Página 228 - And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave : that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Página 228 - And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Página 18 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come!