A Year of Consolation, المجلد 1E. Moxon, 1847 |
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الصفحة 213 - ... wall-flowers, half off his blue-black hair to scratch his head, as lazily as if he grudged the trouble, while his bronze face sparkles through all its sleepiness with the brilliant colouring and vivid expression peculiar to this singularly handsome race. Passing these at a more rapid pace comes the mounted peasant or cattle-driver ; his short jacket, tight breeches, and leather gaiters, buckled like armour round his legs, showing admirably his straight and well-proportioned limbs ; his dark green...
الصفحة 211 - ... and ample folds. Without the net, and wandering on a sort of free guard, the white wolfish dogs of the campagna prowl round the settlement, and come yelling, and barking, and bounding furiously towards us, while leaning lazily on his staff, as we go by, the shepherd himself completes the picture ; with his goat-skin breeches, and sheep-skin cloak, and matted black mane of his own tangled locks, out of which his eyes gleam like coals of fire. Far off we see the grey fortress farms rising in masses...
الصفحة 1 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640.
الصفحة 114 - My weary spirits revived with the sight of the first vine inclosures ; and as we presently began to travel between high walls, I remembered all the descriptions of travellers that I had read, and knew that we must be even at the gate of Rome ; suddenly against the clear azure of the sky, a huge shadowy cupola rose up. I felt a perfect tumult of doubt, fear, and hope — such as I experienced when, through the overhanging thickets that fringe them, I first saw the yeasty waters of Lake Erie, rushing...
الصفحة 5 - TAYLOR'S PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. Price 2s. 6d. EDWIN THE FAIR, &c. Price 2s. 6d. BARRY CORNWALL'S SONGS. Price 2*. 6d. LEIGH HUNT'S POETICAL WORKS.
الصفحة 143 - He was immedintely despatched in search of the pre-eminent cobbler, and the Jew no sooner appeared before the Sultan than the latter, sending for the sealed purse about which the controversy had been held, charged him with having in like manner repaired a slit in the woof of the apparently uninjured bag. The Jew instantly admitted the fact ; and thus the reclamation of the poor defrauded friend and diamond owner was substantiated.
الصفحة 203 - I think of thee. Was it in vain ! Oh, was it all in vain ! That night of hope, of terror, and of pain, When from the shadowy boundaries of death I brought thee safely, breathing living breath ? Upon my heart — it was a holy shrine, Full of God's praise — they laid thee, treasure mine ! And from its tender depths the blue heaven smiled, And the white blossoms bowed to thee, my child, And solemn joy of a new life was spread, Like a mysterious halo round that bed...
الصفحة 142 - ... the slave. When the latter came to fulfil his duty of rolling up and removing the precious carpet, he remained aghast at the injury it had received, and immediately, apprehending the dreadful effect of the Sultan's displeasure, hastened with the rug to the quarter of the city where the Jews resided ; and seeking out one peculiarly renowned for his skill, committed the costly carpet to his...