Everyday Life in Turkey

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Hodder and Stoughton, 1897 - 303 páginas
 

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Página 157 - A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething. As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced; Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: 215 And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Página 157 - 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.
Página 157 - mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Página 157 - By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Página 190 - Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!
Página 108 - ... sons would be born. Professor Ramsay remarks in one of his books of travel, " It is true that legally the Muhammedan wife is her husband's chattel to do with as it seems to him good. I understand that till very recently the British wife occupied much the same position, in the eye of the law, . . . the ordinary Turkish husband does not appear to avail himself oftener of his legal right to tyrannise over his better half than the British husband does ; less so in fact. Cases of brutality on the...
Página 121 - ... when the seas shall boil; and when the souls shall be joined again to their bodies; and when the girl who hath been buried alive shall be asked for what crime she was put to death; and when the...
Página 121 - ... time the same dislike existed in a more repulsive form still, and the practice of burying daughters alive, wad al bendt, as it was called, was very prevalent. ' The best son-in-law is the grave,' said one of their own proverbs, and the father was in most cases the murderer. It is narrated of a certain Othman, that he never shed tears except on one occasion, when his little daughter, whom he was burying alive, wiped the grave-dust from his beard. Against this inhuman practice Mohammed directed...
Página 184 - Nixibis, crossing the Euphrates; and everywhere I found fellow-worshippers. Holding Paul in my hands I followed, while Faith everywhere went in front, and everywhere set before me, as food, the Fish from the fountain, mighty, pure, which a spotless Virgin grasped. And this she (ie Faith) gave to the friends to eat at all times, having excellent wine, giving the mixed cup with bread. These words, I Avircius, standing by, ordered to be written: I was of a truth in my seventy-second year. When he sees...

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