Nile Notes of a HowadjiHarper, 1856 - 362 страница |
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... form fade in the twilight , yet I doubt if he reached Bagdad in time for the eighth history . Scarce had he passed , when a long string of donkeys ambled by , bearing , each , one of the inflated balloons . It was a hareem taking the ...
... form fade in the twilight , yet I doubt if he reached Bagdad in time for the eighth history . Scarce had he passed , when a long string of donkeys ambled by , bearing , each , one of the inflated balloons . It was a hareem taking the ...
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... pyra- mids rosier in the western rosiness . Their forms were sculptured sharply in the sunset . We knew that they were on the edge of the desert ; that their awful shadows darkened the sphinx . For so fair and 6 NILE NOTES .
... pyra- mids rosier in the western rosiness . Their forms were sculptured sharply in the sunset . We knew that they were on the edge of the desert ; that their awful shadows darkened the sphinx . For so fair and 6 NILE NOTES .
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... form . Some Howadji can not resist the sonnets and the slippers , and take the fatal plunge even at Alexan- dria . Wines and the ecstatic Irish doctor did so under our eyes , and returned six weeks later to THE DRAGOMEN . 11.
... form . Some Howadji can not resist the sonnets and the slippers , and take the fatal plunge even at Alexan- dria . Wines and the ecstatic Irish doctor did so under our eyes , and returned six weeks later to THE DRAGOMEN . 11.
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... forms and costumes that had hitherto existed only in poems and pictures , when I heard suddenly , " Have you laid in any potatoes ? " and beheld beam- ing elderly John Bull by my side . " It occurred to me . " said he , " that the long ...
... forms and costumes that had hitherto existed only in poems and pictures , when I heard suddenly , " Have you laid in any potatoes ? " and beheld beam- ing elderly John Bull by my side . " It occurred to me . " said he , " that the long ...
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... the composers are the poets to western imaginations . In the East , you feel and see music , but hear it never . Yet in Cairo and Damascus the poets sit at the cafés , surrounded by the forms and colors of their 32 NILE NOTES .
... the composers are the poets to western imaginations . In the East , you feel and see music , but hear it never . Yet in Cairo and Damascus the poets sit at the cafés , surrounded by the forms and colors of their 32 NILE NOTES .
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Страница 281 - Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Страница 128 - Thus in the ever-closed Hareem, As in the open Western home, Sheds womanhood her starry gleam Over our being's busy foam ; Through latitudes of varying faith Thus trace we still her mission sure, To lighten life, to sweeten death, And all for others to endure.
Страница 154 - ... monotony of a tropical life — and partly of the yellow silence of the Desert, and of drear solitudes inaccessible, and of wandering caravans, and lonely men. Then of 'gardens overhanging rivers, that roll gorgeous-shor/ed through Western fancies — of gardens in Bagdad watered by the Euphrates and the Tigris, whereof it was the fringe and darling ornament— of oases in those sere sad deserts where it overfountained fountains, and every leaf was blessed. More than all, of the great Orient...
Страница 348 - ... would brightly flash, if we could see them, they fill their jars, and in a long file recede and disappear among the palms. Over the brown mud villages the pigeons coo and fly, and hang by hundreds upon the clumsy towers built for them, and a long pause of sun and silence follows. Presently turbaned Abraham with flowing garment and snowy beard, leaning upon his staff, passes with Sarah along the green path on the river's edge toward Memphis and King Pharaoh. On the opposite desert lingers Hagar...
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