Under Egyptian Palms: Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the NileChapman and Hall, 1869 - 308 Seiten |
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... wandered to- gether over many a league , both of desert and green country lane , and we never quarrelled . His donkey was of a contemplative cast of mind , but brisk enough when occasion required it . We soon came to a mutual ...
... wandered to- gether over many a league , both of desert and green country lane , and we never quarrelled . His donkey was of a contemplative cast of mind , but brisk enough when occasion required it . We soon came to a mutual ...
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... wanders up long , quiet reaches of the river , flanked by green meadows , and fringed with palm . Over the one bank the crescent moon is riding high and pale , in the deep heaven ; beyond the other a crimson haze is deepening , where ...
... wanders up long , quiet reaches of the river , flanked by green meadows , and fringed with palm . Over the one bank the crescent moon is riding high and pale , in the deep heaven ; beyond the other a crimson haze is deepening , where ...
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... wanders it lights on this barren wall . And how glorious in form and detail is that limestone barrier , how important ! The desert sands , surging up in billowy wildness , are here stayed . Their proud waves do indeed overcrest the ...
... wanders it lights on this barren wall . And how glorious in form and detail is that limestone barrier , how important ! The desert sands , surging up in billowy wildness , are here stayed . Their proud waves do indeed overcrest the ...
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... wanders , it is the city of the dead . And in that mountain's shadow , age after age , sits Memnon on his rocky throne - hopeful Memnon , type of persistent faith , ever gazing for the coming Day . Is it a dream of the brain , that ...
... wanders , it is the city of the dead . And in that mountain's shadow , age after age , sits Memnon on his rocky throne - hopeful Memnon , type of persistent faith , ever gazing for the coming Day . Is it a dream of the brain , that ...
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... wanders , it is a city of the dead . Into the heart of this mountain - ridge we pene- trated by the narrow and mysterious gorge before mentioned , which of old received none but the Theban Pharaohs . More than a mile , we rode.
... wanders , it is a city of the dead . Into the heart of this mountain - ridge we pene- trated by the narrow and mysterious gorge before mentioned , which of old received none but the Theban Pharaohs . More than a mile , we rode.
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acanthus Allah amid Arabs backsheesh bank beast beneath birds boat Boulac broad Cairo caliph camels candles Cataract chamber chiboukes clustering columns Copts crag crocodile dahabeeyah dancing dark dead deck deep desert divans donkey donkey-boy dragoman dusky dust Egypt Egyptian eyes face fancy feet fell felucca flashing followed fugleman gardens Girgeh girls gloom goozeh Hadji hand Haroun head Herodotus hills hither Isis journey Karnac khamsas land landscape Latakia light look Luxor morning mountain mummy Mustapha necklace never night Nile Nubian Osiris palm passed Pharaoh Philæ piastres pillars plain pleasant Professor river rock round Saïd sail sailors sakia sand scene sculptured sepulchre Sethi shadow shore sight silent sleep Smith smoke solemn song Sowadee splendour spoonbills stood strange stream sunny Syene temple Theban Thebes thick thing tombs trees turban upper urchins 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.