The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1848 - Egypt |
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Abyssinia Alexandria ancient appearance Arab arrived bank beard beautiful blue boat breeze bright Cairo calm camels Carnak carpet cataract Christian cliffs colour Copts crew crocodiles crowd dark deck desert dragoman Egypt Egyptian English Ethiopia eyes faith feet flag foam gardens gigantic gleamed green grove hand hareem hills hippopotamus hour hundred hyæna inhabitants island Isle of Flowers land lonely look Luxor luxury Mahmoud Mahomet Mamelukes Mehemet Mehemet Ali Meroë miles moon moored Moslem mountain never night Nile Nubian once palace palm palm-trees Pasha passed Pharaohs piastres picturesque pipe plain pyramids river rock round ruins sailors sails sands Saracen scarcely scene seemed Sesostris shade shadow Sheikh Shendy shore silence slaves song soon stood strewn sunshine tarboosh temple tent Thebes tion tombs tower traveller turban Turk vast veil village Wady Halfa walls waving wild women
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Page 234 - 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 25 - 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 103 - Spare your remonstrances," replied the intrepid fanatic to his uncle and benefactor; "if they should place the sun on my right hand, and the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course.
Page 31 - 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 325 - He was a statesman, a bel- esprit, a virtuoso, and a connoisseur. His curiosity made him an unwearied, as well as an universal, learner, and whatever he saw found its way into his tablets.
Page 39 - Slowly and majestically, as the evening fell, the remainder of the fleet came on beneath a cloud of sail, receiving the fire of the castle and the batteries in portentous silence, only broken by the crash of spars, or the boatswain's whistle; each ship furling her sails calmly, as a sea-bird might fold its wings, and gliding tranquilly onward till she found her destined foe.
Page 325 - If, quitting the broad path of history, we look for minute information concerning ancient manners and customs, tlie progress of arts and sciences, and the various branches of antiquity, we have never seen a mine so rich as these volumes. The variety of Pepys' tastes and pursuits led him into almost every department of life.
Page 41 - Your battle-flag or none," was the stern reply, as her enemy rounded to, and the matches glimmered over her line of guns. Slowly and reluctantly, like an expiring hope, that pale flag fluttered down from her lofty spars, and the next that floated there was the banner of Old England.
Page 27 - Alexander selected from his wide dominions, and which Napoleon pronounced to be unrivalled in importance. Here luxury and literature, the Epicurean and the Christian, philosophy and commerce once dwelt together. Here stood the great library of antiquity, " the assembled souls of all that men held wise." Here the Hebrew Scriptures expanded into Greek under the hands of the Septuagint. Here Cleopatra, " vainqueur des vainqueurs du monde," revelled with her Roman conquerors.
Page 40 - Then darkness and silence came again, broken only by the shower of blazing fragments in which that brave ship fell upon the waters. Till that moment, Nelson was ignorant how the battle went. He knew that every man was doing his duty, but he knew not how successfully. He had been wounded in the forehead, but had found his way unnoticed to the deck in the suspense of the coming explosion.