Under Egyptian Palms: Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the NileChapman and Hall, 1869 - 308 Seiten |
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... feelings , these children of the East . Whatever comes upper- most is fearlessly shown ; but it soon passes . You are constantly , in your wanderings , edified by little bubblings up of affection , anger , spite ; and ever are met , now ...
... feelings , these children of the East . Whatever comes upper- most is fearlessly shown ; but it soon passes . You are constantly , in your wanderings , edified by little bubblings up of affection , anger , spite ; and ever are met , now ...
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... Israel from his bitter bondage ; over which Pharaoh's proud hosts , hotly pursuing , rushed blindfold to their doom . The first sight of the Desert strikes you with THE DESERT . 17 feelings akin to those called up 16 UNDER EGYPTIAN PALMS .
... Israel from his bitter bondage ; over which Pharaoh's proud hosts , hotly pursuing , rushed blindfold to their doom . The first sight of the Desert strikes you with THE DESERT . 17 feelings akin to those called up 16 UNDER EGYPTIAN PALMS .
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... feelings akin to those called up by the first sight of the sea . There is the same indefinable sense of melancholy , the same wild majesty , the same mys- tery . Both speak to you with one voice ; but the speech of the Desert is deeper ...
... feelings akin to those called up by the first sight of the sea . There is the same indefinable sense of melancholy , the same wild majesty , the same mys- tery . Both speak to you with one voice ; but the speech of the Desert is deeper ...
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... feeling whether it is not unkind to continue your course . But just as your dog will scamper hither and thither in the fields from sheer wantonness , so after long wanderings will your donkey - boy . And thus you get hardened . Lithe as ...
... feeling whether it is not unkind to continue your course . But just as your dog will scamper hither and thither in the fields from sheer wantonness , so after long wanderings will your donkey - boy . And thus you get hardened . Lithe as ...
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... feeling , nor shallow ; nor is an Arab lad of thirteen a stranger to care . No ; in the stagnant pool of a Mussulman's life there is a lack of peace . Quiet he may have - he catches but the USEFUL FOR MARKETING . 51 far - off murmur of ...
... feeling , nor shallow ; nor is an Arab lad of thirteen a stranger to care . No ; in the stagnant pool of a Mussulman's life there is a lack of peace . Quiet he may have - he catches but the USEFUL FOR MARKETING . 51 far - off murmur of ...
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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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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.