The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Bind 2H. Colburn, 1845 |
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ancient appeared Arab arms Athens Baalbec beautiful Bedouin beneath Beyrout bright camels character Christian church cliffs COLBURN'S Constantinople convent Corfu Crescent Damascus dark desert distance divan dragoman dress Druses East Egypt Egyptian Emir England English faith gallop gardens George Cruikshank Greece Greek groves hills Holy horse inhabitants interest island Jaffa Jerusalem Jews journey khan king Lady Lady Hester Stanhope land Lebanon light looked luxury Malta marble Marco Botzaris Maronite Mehemet Mehemet Ali miles monks morning Moslem Mount Mount of Olives mountain never night Nile palace Palestine Pasha passed path picturesque pilgrims pipe plain pleasant Prince quarantine rocks rode round ruins Saracens scarcely scene scenery seemed servants shade Sheikh shore Sidon soon spirit steep streets Sultan Syrian Temple tent terraces towers town traveller tribes turban Turkish Turks valley village vols walls wandered waves wild
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Side 128 - 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.
Side 16 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Side vii - 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
Side 244 - Ave, Maria ; blessed be the hour, The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower, Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet, the forest leaves seemed stirred with prayer.
Side 160 - 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.
Side 308 - 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.
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