| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...tranquil mien. And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on...tranquil mien everlasting. You dare not mock at the Sphynx. AW KINGLAKE. — Eothen. CONSTANTINOPLE EVEN if we don't take a part in the chant about ' Mosques... | |
| Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...inexorable I ... And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on...same sad earnest eyes, and the same tranquil mien everlastingly." — KINQLAKB : tiothtn (1844). CHAPTER X. THEBAN THIEVES. THEBES was the ancient capital... | |
| A. Wyatt Tilby - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...Pr°PliecyKinglake in Eothen, that most delightful of all records of oriental travel, ' the Englishman will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile, and sit in the Seats of the Faithful.' The words were written early in the Victorian age, at a time when few things seemed less likely than... | |
| Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...tranquil mien. And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on...mien everlasting. You dare not mock at the Sphinx! — KINGLAKE 10. A great chapter of the history of the world is written in the chalk. Few passages... | |
| Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...tranquil mien. And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on...tranquil mien everlasting. You dare not mock at the Sphinx!—KINGLAKB of the globe which I hope to enable you to read with your own eyes tonight. Let... | |
| Walter Rippmann (ed) - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 152
...we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved 36 India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the...watching the works of the new busy race, with those same 40 sad, earnest eyes, and the same tranquil mien everlasting. You dare not mock at the Sphynx ! The... | |
| Ralph Shirley - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 88
...tranquil mien. And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away ; and the Englishman, straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile and sit in the seat of the Faithful, and still that sleepless rock will be watching and watching the works of the... | |
| Hartley Withers - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 208
...spelt it thus): "And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman, leaning far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on...earnest eyes, and the same tranquil mien everlasting." After the building of the Canal, the command of this short-cut to India made Egypt still more important.... | |
| Hartley Withers - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...far over to hold his loved India, will plant-'a £rm foot on the banks of the Nile, and sit iri'.tjbe seats of the Faithful, and still that sleepless 'rock...earnest eyes, and the same tranquil mien everlasting-" After the building of the Canal, the com-., mand of this short cut to India made Egypt ' still more... | |
| Raymond Blathwayt - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...goes on to say — " we shall die, and Islam will wither away ; and the Englishman, straining for ever to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on...mien everlasting. You dare not mock at the Sphinx ! " " Wake up, Blathwayt, wake up ! " And a hand gently laid upon my shoulder brought me back from... | |
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