The crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and realities of Eastern travel |
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Alexandria ancient appearance Arab arrived Athens Baalbec beautiful Bedouin beneath Beyrout boat Bosphorus bright Cairo camels carpet Cataract Christian church cliffs colour Constantinople convent Corfu Crescent Damascus dark desert distance dragoman dress Druses East Egypt Egyptian Emir England English faith feet gardens gleamed Greece Greek groves hills horses hyæna inhabitants island Jerusalem Jews labour land Lebanon light looked luxury magnificent Mahmoud Malta Mamelukes marble Maronite Mehemet Mehemet Ali miles morning Moslem mosque Mount mountain never night Nile Nubia once palace Palestine Pasha passed path picturesque pilgrims pipe plain pleasant Pyramids river rocks rocky rode round ruins sail Saracenic scarcely scene scenery seemed servants shade Sheikh shore Sidon soon steamers steep stood Sultan Syria temple tent terraces tombs towers town traveller tribes turban Turkish Turks valley village Wady Halfa walls wandered waves wide wild women
Popular passages
Page 130 - 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 115 - 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 305 - 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 181 - 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
Page 13 - 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 247 - 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 342 - 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 146 - 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 259 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 305 - So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in heaven.