The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, 第 2 卷H. Colburn, 1848 |
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ancient appearance Arab Athens Baalbec beautiful Bedouin beneath Beyrout Bosphorus bright caïque camels caravan carpet Christian church cliffs Constantinople convent Corfu Crescent Crusades Damascus dark Dead Sea desert distance Druses Egypt Egyptian Emir enclosure England English foam gallop gardens Greece Greek groves Hajla hills Holy horses inhabitants island Jaffa Jerusalem Jews khan land Lebanon light lofty looked luxury magnificent Malta marble Maronite Mehemet Ali miles minarets monks morning Moslem mosque Mount Mount of Olives mountain night once palace Palestine Pasha passed path picturesque pilgrims pipe plain pleasant purple river road rocks rocky rode round ruins Saracens scarcely scene scenery seemed Septinsular Republic Sepulchre servants shade Sheikh shore side Sidon soon spot stands steep stood streets Syrian tain Temple tent terraces towers town traveller trees tribes turban Turkish Turks valley village walls wandered waves wide wild
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第 216 頁 - 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...
第 281 頁 - 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.
第 147 頁 - 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.
第 115 頁 - 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!
第 217 頁 - While many of his tribe slumbered around: And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.
第 159 頁 - For I am the Lord, I change not ; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
第 1 頁 - 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
第 209 頁 - Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by...
第 315 頁 - Byzantium. Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, meeting with great difficulties in carrying on the siege of this city, set the workmen one dark night to undermine the walls. Luckily for the besieged, a young moon suddenly appearing, discovered the design, which accordingly miscarried, in acknowledgment whereof the Byzantines erected a statue to Diana, and the Crescent became the symbol of the state.