Under Egyptian Palms: Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the NileChapman and Hall, 1869 - 308 Seiten |
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... dust - there is no platform - resumes his pipe , hugs his knees , and serenely contemplates the travellers as they descend . We are stayed in the midst of a labyrinth of mud dwellings , the road on a level with what is , I suppose , the ...
... dust - there is no platform - resumes his pipe , hugs his knees , and serenely contemplates the travellers as they descend . We are stayed in the midst of a labyrinth of mud dwellings , the road on a level with what is , I suppose , the ...
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... dust ; some taking a turn ; but all are in various stages of difficulty with the luscious reed . Such as have a regard to appearances gnaw at it delicately , but the greater part are seen with cheeks puffed out , struggling desperately ...
... dust ; some taking a turn ; but all are in various stages of difficulty with the luscious reed . Such as have a regard to appearances gnaw at it delicately , but the greater part are seen with cheeks puffed out , struggling desperately ...
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... dust on the human dwellers below . A little loophole , high up , and a door , complete the arrangement . In this village , as before said , all the inhabitants appear to be assembled in the public Place — to eat , drink , and live there ...
... dust on the human dwellers below . A little loophole , high up , and a door , complete the arrangement . In this village , as before said , all the inhabitants appear to be assembled in the public Place — to eat , drink , and live there ...
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... dust , ducking into it , and piling it on one another like children at play with the loose sea sand ; a gathering of enterprising hens , very conceited , and perfectly at home ; pigeons , too , on easy terms of intimacy ; and always and ...
... dust , ducking into it , and piling it on one another like children at play with the loose sea sand ; a gathering of enterprising hens , very conceited , and perfectly at home ; pigeons , too , on easy terms of intimacy ; and always and ...
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... dust . Swarthy peasants are sauntering through the corn- fields , or resting from the noontide heat under a grove . There is a group of merry girls gossiping around a wayside well , sporting and splashing in playful humour ; and others ...
... dust . Swarthy peasants are sauntering through the corn- fields , or resting from the noontide heat under a grove . There is a group of merry girls gossiping around a wayside well , sporting and splashing in playful humour ; and others ...
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Allah amid Arabs backsheesh bank beneath birds boat breast broad Cairo Caliph camels candles cast Cataract chamber chiboukes cliff clustering columns Copts crag crocodile dahabeeyah dancing dark deck deep desert divans donkey donkey-boy dragoman dusky dust Egypt Egyptian eyes fancy feet fell felucca flabella flashing followed fragments fugleman gardens Girgeh girls gorgeous Hadji hand Haroun head Herodotus hills hither Isis island Karnac kawass khamsas land landscape Latakia legs light look Luxor moonlight morning mountain mummy Mustapha necklace never night Nile Nubian Osiris painted palm passed Pharaoh Phila Philæ piastres pillars plain pleasant Professor river rock round Saïd sail sailors sakias sand scene sculptured sepulchre Sethi shadows shore sight sleep Smith smoking solemn song splendour spoonbills stood strange stream sunny Syene temple Theban Thebes thick thing tombs traveller trees turban village wall wandered watch 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.