THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ITS BORDERLANDS1910 |
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
Achradina adorned afterward Algiers Alhambra ancient Arab Aragon attractive beautiful Boabdil buildings built called Cape captured Carthage Carthaginians castle cathedral century B. C. chapel chief Christian church cliffs coast columns crater desert earthquake eastern eastward Ebro elevation enclosing entrance eruption Etna extends famous feet high feet long fertile fortress French Genoa Gibraltar Granada grand Greek Guadalquivir Gulf harbor hill houses hundred feet interior Ischia island King land lava limestone Malta marble Mediterranean Messina miles Monte Moorish Moors Morocco Moslem mosque mountain Naples nearly northern northward Ortygia palace Phoenicians picturesque population port promontory railway Raisuli region relics ridge rising river rock Roman ruins Santa Saracens Sardinia settlement Seville ships shore Sicily side siege sixteenth century slopes southern southward spacious Spain Spanish splendid square strait stream streets stretching summit Tangier temple thousand tion tomb tower town valley village visitor walls western westward
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 408 - Thy waters washed them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts ; — not so thou ; — Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Página 516 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Página 13 - And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three. Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came; Ship after ship, the whole night long, with her battle-thunder and flame ; Ship after ship, the whole night long, drew back with her dead and her shame.
Página 72 - Blackwood made answer that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand what they were about. These words were scarcely spoken before that signal was made which will be remembered as long as the language, or even the memory of England shall endure, — Nelson's last signal : ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY!" It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by the spirit which it breathed and the feeling which it expressed. "Now," said...
Página 174 - I testify there is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah!
Página 60 - I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace ; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot : they amount to fourteen.
Página 77 - Thou art the rock of empire, set mid-seas Between the East and West, that God has built; Advance thy Roman borders where thou wilt, While run thy armies true with his decrees ; Law, justice, liberty, — great gifts are these: Watch that they spread where English blood is spilt, Lest, mixed and sullied with his country's guilt, The soldier's life-stream flow, and Heaven displease!
Página 177 - We are the army of the Great God ; we produce ninety-nine eggs ; if the hundred were completed, we should consume the whole earth and all that is in it*.
Página 150 - There was crying in Granada when the sun was going down, Some calling on the Trinity, some calling on Mahoun; Here passed away the Koran, there in the cross was borne, And here was heard the Christian bell, and there the Moorish horn...
Página 166 - THE SEA. NOBLY, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay ; In the dimmest North-East distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray ; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...