Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated: In a Series of Views Drawn from Nature, Volumen1Fisher, Son, & Company, 1836 - 256 páginas |
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... Aleppo , is full of a modern as well as ancient interest ; there are several large and wealthy towns , where manufactures might be introduced , and a regular com- mercial intercourse established : the cultivation of some districts is ...
... Aleppo , is full of a modern as well as ancient interest ; there are several large and wealthy towns , where manufactures might be introduced , and a regular com- mercial intercourse established : the cultivation of some districts is ...
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... Aleppo , the route is still in the vicinity of the Orontes , which is there crossed by a ferry - boat , the breadth being fifty or sixty yards , and the banks forty or fifty feet high . The water continues to be discoloured , like that ...
... Aleppo , the route is still in the vicinity of the Orontes , which is there crossed by a ferry - boat , the breadth being fifty or sixty yards , and the banks forty or fifty feet high . The water continues to be discoloured , like that ...
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... Aleppo . From Beilan to the former place , the descent from the mountains to the sea is very striking : the heights are lofty , picturesque , well covered with wood , and a great part of them planted with vines , disposed in the neatest ...
... Aleppo . From Beilan to the former place , the descent from the mountains to the sea is very striking : the heights are lofty , picturesque , well covered with wood , and a great part of them planted with vines , disposed in the neatest ...
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... Aleppo , is the town of Beilan , in the gorge of Mount Amanus . When yet about three hours distant , the traveller comes to the Khan of the Black Myrtle , so called from the quantity of that shrub in the neighbourhood , where there is a ...
... Aleppo , is the town of Beilan , in the gorge of Mount Amanus . When yet about three hours distant , the traveller comes to the Khan of the Black Myrtle , so called from the quantity of that shrub in the neighbourhood , where there is a ...
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... Aleppo and Bir ; the jealousy of Ibrahim , and of the inhabitants on the route , and the intrigues set on foot to embarrass the expedition , were at last , after much anxiety , and hope deferred , surmounted and removed , by the ...
... Aleppo and Bir ; the jealousy of Ibrahim , and of the inhabitants on the route , and the intrigues set on foot to embarrass the expedition , were at last , after much anxiety , and hope deferred , surmounted and removed , by the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adana Alaya Aleppo Amanus amidst Anamour ancient Antioch Arab Asia Minor banks Barouk beautiful Bedouin Beilan beneath Beshir Beteddein camel Captain Beaufort caravan castle cedars Christians Cilicia cliffs coast Colonel Chesney covered Cydnus Damascus Daphné dark declivities desert distance divan Druses dwellings East Egypt Emir Euphrates feet forest gardens gates Girgius glory groves heights hill hour houses Ibrahim Pasha khan ladies land Lebanon lonely look luxury magnificent Maronite merchants miles mosque Mount Taurus mountain murmur Nahr-el-Kelb night noble numerous Orontes Pacha palace pass Pharpar picturesque pilgrim pillars pipe plain precipices rest rich river rock roof ruins scene seated sepulchres shadow Sheich shore side Sir Sydney Smith solitary sound stone stranger stream Suadeah summit Syria Tarsus Taurus temple tents tombs torrent towers town traveller trees Tripoli Turkish Turks valley village voice W. H. Bartlett walls wandering waters wave wild wind
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Página 62 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Página 10 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no 'galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Página 42 - To that high Capital where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay He came; and bought, with price of purest breath, A grave among the eternal.— Come away!
Página 42 - Like dew upon a sleeping flower, there lies A tear some Dream has loosened from his brain." Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise ! She knew not 'twas her own; as with no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.
Página 48 - The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Página 57 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel ; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Página 56 - O'er intervening flowers to move — And as we read the names unknown, Of young and old, to judgment gone, And hear, in the calm air above, Time onwards softly flying, To meditate, in Christian love, Upon the dead and dying ! Across the silence seem to go With dream-like motion...
Página 32 - But treads with silent footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest bear; Who, soothed to false repose by the fanning plumes above. And the music-stirring motion of its soft and busy feet, Dream visions of aerial joy, and call the monster, Love, And wake, and find the shadow Pain, as he whom now we greet.
Página 42 - Our love, our hope, our sorrow, is not dead ! See, on the silken fringe of his faint eyes, Like dew upon a sleeping flower, there lies A tear some dream has loosened from his brain.
Página 42 - Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.