Shores of the Mediterranean: With Sketches of Travel, Volumul 1Harper & Bros., 1846 - 616 pagini |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
admirable Alexandria ancient Arab arches arrived beautiful Bedouins Beirout boat Bosphorus caiques Cairo camels canal cangiah cape castle chapel chibouques Christian citadel cliffs comfortable Constantinople consul court crowd deck delightful desert dinner dome donkeys dragoman dress Egypt English fancy feet French frigate gardens gate Gibraltar Granada grand groves half handsome harbour hills Holy horses hour huge hundred immense Jaffa Jehoshaphat Jerusalem look Mahon Malta Mehemet Mehemet Ali miles minarets monument Moorish morning mosque Mount of Olives mountain mounted Nile noble o'clock officers olive palace Palermo Pasha passed picturesque plain pleasant Pyramids quay rais Ramleh rich river rock rode sail scene sheikh ship shore side sort stone stood summit superb tall tarbouche terraces thing tomb Toulon towers town travellers trees Trieste turban Turkish Turks valley village walk walls wind wonderful
Pasaje populare
Pagina 135 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Pagina 224 - The beings of the mind are not of clay; Essentially immortal, they create And multiply in us a brighter ray And more beloved existence: that which Fate Prohibits to dull life, in this our state Of mortal bondage, by these spirits supplied, First exiles, then replaces what we hate; Watering the heart whose early flowers have died, And with a fresher growth replenishing the void.
Pagina 250 - Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Pagina 266 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Pagina 98 - Artaxerxes' throne. To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, From Heaven descended to the low-roofed house Of Socrates — see there his tenement — Whom, well inspired, the oracle pronounced Wisest of men; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams, that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean and the Stoic severe.
Pagina 269 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Pagina 193 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Pagina 243 - America, although in no mood for jesting, was at that time unable to resent this impertinence of Omar, .son of Mohammed. Her contest with England had, indeed, proved triumphant ; but another such victory would have been her ruin, and she had emerged from the conflict crippled and resourceless. Though sorely against her Will she was compelled to ' eat the leek ' proffered to her by the insolent dey.
Pagina 79 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Pagina 191 - In all this beautiful valley there is not a single fence or wall, and the park-like effect of the groves and valleys is very lovely. It struck me that, in the hands of skilful husbandmen, it might be a paradise. Several Arab villages of brown mud cottages, with tall...
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