Under Egyptian Palms: Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the NileChapman and Hall, 1869 - 308 Seiten |
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... course it is impossible to maintain Western discipline in Egypt . Thus the departure platform of the Alexandria station presents a picture of busy life such as no European who has had to fight his way therein will easily forget . A ...
... course it is impossible to maintain Western discipline in Egypt . Thus the departure platform of the Alexandria station presents a picture of busy life such as no European who has had to fight his way therein will easily forget . A ...
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... along that high road - was the relative adjustment of labour considered fitting as between man and wife , on their marketing expeditions . Of course a A WIFE'S POLITENESS . 9 donkey was of the party 8 UNDER EGYPTIAN PALMS .
... along that high road - was the relative adjustment of labour considered fitting as between man and wife , on their marketing expeditions . Of course a A WIFE'S POLITENESS . 9 donkey was of the party 8 UNDER EGYPTIAN PALMS .
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... course- you see planted with its enceinte , as a wild flower on a ruin , a fair and comely mosque of costly alabaster , with a dazzling coronet of cupolas and pinnacles . Such is Grand Cairo to you from the rail , as seen through the ...
... course- you see planted with its enceinte , as a wild flower on a ruin , a fair and comely mosque of costly alabaster , with a dazzling coronet of cupolas and pinnacles . Such is Grand Cairo to you from the rail , as seen through the ...
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... course among the turbaned loungers in the shady lebbek avenue which outlies the Frank quarter , and through the brilliant bustle of the dusty way leading to the Uzbekeeyeh . Baggage to the front - cavalry follow- ing - infantry in the ...
... course among the turbaned loungers in the shady lebbek avenue which outlies the Frank quarter , and through the brilliant bustle of the dusty way leading to the Uzbekeeyeh . Baggage to the front - cavalry follow- ing - infantry in the ...
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... course , terse and epigrammatic - dragoman's papers always are . Let us look at the man as he stood there . A handsome , bronze - skinned fellow of five - and- twenty , lithe and lusty , with a finely chiselled face - a face much akin ...
... course , terse and epigrammatic - dragoman's papers always are . Let us look at the man as he stood there . A handsome , bronze - skinned fellow of five - and- twenty , lithe and lusty , with a finely chiselled face - a face much akin ...
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Under Egyptian Palms: Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the Nile Howard Hopley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
Under Egyptian Palms: Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the Nile Howard Hopley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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ages Arabs arms bank birds boat bright broad brought Cairo called camels candles carried cast chamber CHAPTER columns course dancing dark dead deck deep donkey dust Egypt Egyptian eyes face fact fair fancy feeling feet fell fields followed fresh gardens girls give green half hand Haroun head heart hills hold hour kind land leaves light living look morning mountain mummy naturally never night Nile once palm passed picture pillars plain pleasant Professor rest river rock round Saïd sail sailors sand scene seemed seen shadow shore sight silent Smith sometimes stand stood strange stream temple Thebes thick thing thought tombs took trees turban turn upper village walks wall wandered watch whole wild wind women
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Seite 33 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Seite 76 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Seite 251 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Seite 60 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thec do we beg assistance.
Seite 301 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay...
Seite 63 - Nilus gins to swell With timely pride above the Aegyptian vale, His fattie waves do fertile slime outwell, And overflow each plaine and lowly dale: But, when his later spring gins to avale, Huge...
Seite 129 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Seite 230 - It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs: it lives by that which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
Seite 304 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Seite 70 - SAGES of old contended that no sin was ever committed whose consequences rested on the head of the sinner alone ; that no man could do ill and his fellows not suffer. They illustrated it thus :—" A vessel sailing from Joppa, carried a passenger, who, beneath his berth, cut a hole through the ship's side. When the men of the watch expostulated with him, "What doest thou, O miserable man?" the offender calmly replied, " What matters it to you? The hole I have made lies under my own berth.