Uncle Oliver's Travels: PersiaCharles Knight, 1835 |
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... Locusts . These insects are not , indeed , peculiar to Persia , or even to Asia ; but as that country suffers much ... locust lays her eggs in autumn , and the way in which she does it is very curious . She makes choice of a piece of ...
... Locusts . These insects are not , indeed , peculiar to Persia , or even to Asia ; but as that country suffers much ... locust lays her eggs in autumn , and the way in which she does it is very curious . She makes choice of a piece of ...
Page 268
... locust has laid her eggs ; and they take a great deal of trouble in hunting them out and destroying them . In the places which have been plagued with the visits of the locusts , the hedges and ridges begin to swarm about the middle of ...
... locust has laid her eggs ; and they take a great deal of trouble in hunting them out and destroying them . In the places which have been plagued with the visits of the locusts , the hedges and ridges begin to swarm about the middle of ...
Page 269
... locusts ; but that which I am describing is the great destroying locust . They are exceedingly strong - indeed I am not sure that there is any creature in the world stronger in proportion to its size . They not only make very long ...
... locusts ; but that which I am describing is the great destroying locust . They are exceedingly strong - indeed I am not sure that there is any creature in the world stronger in proportion to its size . They not only make very long ...
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... locust . I dare say you have sometimes read of the flight of locusts ; but nothing you ever read could give you a proper notion of it . Henry . Then I suppose you have seen it , Sir ? U. O. Oh , yes ; very often . On one occasion , when ...
... locust . I dare say you have sometimes read of the flight of locusts ; but nothing you ever read could give you a proper notion of it . Henry . Then I suppose you have seen it , Sir ? U. O. Oh , yes ; very often . On one occasion , when ...
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Persia John Kitto. overhead an immense cloud of locusts , exceeding , I think , all that it is possible for the mind of man to imagine of collected life . This cloud was in many places quite dark by its thickness , but in other places ...
Persia John Kitto. overhead an immense cloud of locusts , exceeding , I think , all that it is possible for the mind of man to imagine of collected life . This cloud was in many places quite dark by its thickness , but in other places ...
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Page 241 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, • But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die...
Page 265 - Paradise. To Thessaly I came, and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me: I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art and nature ever were at strife in.
Page 265 - Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice ; To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly So many voluntaries, and so quick That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight.
Page 272 - Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumn storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks.
Page 265 - The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own ; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to...
Page 98 - As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing.
Page 265 - Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice : To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing...
Page 101 - I applied to the Arabs to be informed in what manner we were to pass the water. Our interpreter, although a Greek, and therefore likely to have been informed of such a phenomenon, was as fully convinced as any of us that we were drawing near to the water's edge, and became indignant when the Arabs maintained that within an hour we should reach Rosetta by crossing the sands in the direct line we then pursued, and that there was no water.
Page 118 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Page 33 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.