Crescent & the Cross; Or, Romance & Realities of Eastern Travel, Volumes 1-2Tauchnitz, 1852 - Egypt |
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Abyssinia Alexandria ancient appearance Arab arrived Baalbec beautiful Bedouin beneath Beyrout blue boat breeze bright Cairo camels carpet Cataract Christian cliffs coffee colour convent Crescent crew crowd dark deck desert desolate distance dragoman Egypt Egyptian English Ethiopia eyes faith feet foam gardens gleamed green groves hareem hills horses hour hyæna inhabitants island Jerusalem land Lebanon light lonely looked Luxor luxury Mahmoud Malta Mamelukes Mehemet Mehemet Ali Meroë miles minarets morning Moslem mosque Mount mountain never night Nile Nubia once palace palm-trees palms Pasha passed picturesque pipe plain pleasant pyramids river rock rode round ruins sail sands Saracen scarcely scene scenery seemed shade shadow Sheikh shore Sidon silent soon steep stood Syria temple tent terraces Thebes tion tombs tower town traveller turban Turkish Turks valley village Wady Halfa walls wandered waves wide wild wind women
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Page 213 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 24 - They have but fallen before us: for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers today; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.
Page 190 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 170 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Boy was sprung to manhood : in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams : he was girt With strange and dusky aspects ; he was not Himself like what he had been; on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer...
Page 239 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Page 29 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Page 105 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 230 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
Page 76 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!
Page 298 - Thy waters wasted them 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