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Abou Nooman almé Almodhafer amusement appeared Arab arms arrived Baharam beard beauty Bedouins began behold Benghazi Bisharein blood breast Cairo camels cast clouds command companions concealed danger daughter death derwish descended desert desire discovered divan door Effendi Eiar Emina emir enemy entered escape eunuch exclaimed extreme eyes father Fatima fear ghawazi giaour Gulnare hand happiness Harami harem hath head heart hope horses Ibn Sallah Ibrahim imagination Kabyles kadhi kafir Kassim khalif ladies Latif length Mansoor Mashallah ment mind Mohammed nature neighbours ness never night observed palace Pasha pass passion perceived possession present prince princess proceeded racter Ramadhan replied rocks round sand santon scimitar seemed Selim Sensifa sheikh Sheitan Shereen Sheyghia shore slave soon soul tears tent thee thou art thoughts tion trembling tribe ulemas voice Wali whole wife women yataghans young youth Zobeidah
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Page 252 - tis as soon Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more, Than could his war resisted. Cffis. Antony, Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel Did famine follow ; whom thou fought'st against, Though daintily brought up, with patience more Than savages could suffer...
Page 55 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky.
Page 23 - And level pavement. From the arched roof) Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 330 - Is not His deed, whatever thing is done In heaven and earth ? Did not He all create To die again ? All ends, that was begun : Their times in his eternal book of fate Are written sure, and have their certain date. Who then can strive with strong necessity, That holds the world in his still changing state ; . Or shun the death ordain'd by destiny ? When hour of death is come, let none ask whence, nor why.
Page 244 - It was a chosen plot of fertile land. Emongst wide waves set, like a litle nest, As if it had by Natures cunning hand Bene choisely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the best...
Page 146 - But breathe revenge, and for the combat burn. As on some mountain, through the lofty grove, The crackling flames ascend, and blaze above; The fires expanding, as the winds arise, Shoot their long beams, and kindle half the skies: So from the polish'd arms, and brazen shields, A gleamy splendour flash'd along the fields. Not less their number than the embodied cranes, 541 Or milk-white swans in Asius
Page 111 - XLIII. Therewith they gan, both furious and fell, To thunder blows, and fiercely to assail Each other, bent his enemy to quell ; That with their force they pierc'd both plate and mail, And made wide furrows in their fleshes frail, That it would pity any living eye : Large floods of blood adown their sides did rail ; But floods of blood could not them satisfy : Both hungered after death ; both chose to win, or die.
Page 306 - Bermudas, walled with rocks, who does not know? That happy island where huge lemons grow, And orange trees, which golden fruit do bear, The Hesperian garden boasts of none so fair; Where shining pearl, coral, and many a pound, On the rich shore, of ambergris is found.
Page 296 - O, not possible; She's kept as warily as is your gold; Never does come abroad, never takes air, But at a window. All her looks are sweet, As the first grapes or cherries, and are watch'd As near as they are.
Page 243 - He knew the cause of every malady, Were it of cold, or hot, or moist, or dry, And where engendered and of what humour, He was a very perfect practisour.