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adorned Alexandria ancient animals appeared approach Arabs arrived Bahr Yusuf bank bastinadoed bazaar beautiful Bedouins beheld boat Cairo camels canal caravanserai chambers cloth coffee colour columns covered cultivated Damietta descended desert discovered dromedaries Efrit Egypt Egyptian entered entrance erected European exceedingly exhibited face feet fellahs gardens Ghawazee hand harem head height hundred inhabitants island ladies lake land length light lofty looked Luxor magnificent Memlooks Mohammed morning mosque Mount Sorel mountains narrow nearly never night Nile Nubian observed ornaments palace Pasha passed perhaps piastres plain present proceeded Pyramid remarkable resembling river rocks round ruins Sakkarah sand scene seemed seen Sheikh shore side slaves soldiers soon stone Strabo stream summit temple Thebes tion tombs travellers trees Turkish Turks Upper Egypt valley vast village Wady Halfa walk walls whole wind women
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Page 436 - of his golden sands and palmy wine : Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam, His first, best country, ever is, at home.
Page 265 - of their thoughts. Shakspeare, in his off-hand portrait of Cressida, a thorough member of this sisterhood, has given an excellent idea of their bearing and appearance :— " There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip : Nay, her foot
Page 358 - Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns and wild images Of more than man, where marble demons watch The zodiac's brazen mystery, and dead men Hang their mute thoughts on the mute walls around,
Page 385 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep, Celestial voices to the midnight
Page 461 - in the sunset air." * The splendour also of the stars and moon was indescribably beautiful, recalling to mind the matchless description in the Iliad, where the poet compares with the lights of the firmament the innumerable watch-fires flashing on the Trojan plain. " As when about the silver moon, when air is free from wind, And stars shine
Page 358 - hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns and wild images Of more than man, where marble demons watch The zodiac's brazen mystery, and dead men Hang their mute thoughts on the mute walls around,
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Page 138 - entered Egypt, and saw the Pyramids, he desired to know what was within, and therefore would have them opened. They told him it could not possibly be done. He replied, I will have it certainly done. And that hole was opened for him, which stands open to this day, with fire and vinegar.