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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... torrent : a small isle of shrubs and a few palms is at a small distance above : the shores on each side are wooded , and backed by bold ascents . Mount Taurus is in the distance . The moon was in her midnight beauty , and beneath her ...
... torrent : a small isle of shrubs and a few palms is at a small distance above : the shores on each side are wooded , and backed by bold ascents . Mount Taurus is in the distance . The moon was in her midnight beauty , and beneath her ...
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... torrent , wailing by , or peering through some glassy pools at the pitiless sun . The banks of the Orontes , at this spot , are beautiful as the forest in its glory and gloom , cool as the cavern on the shore : its haughty cliffs , here ...
... torrent , wailing by , or peering through some glassy pools at the pitiless sun . The banks of the Orontes , at this spot , are beautiful as the forest in its glory and gloom , cool as the cavern on the shore : its haughty cliffs , here ...
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... torrent drowned amidst the roar of cannon , and the confused shouts and cries of the wounded and dying , who made its waters red with blood . Even weeks and months after the battle , it continued to be visited by parties of soldiers ...
... torrent drowned amidst the roar of cannon , and the confused shouts and cries of the wounded and dying , who made its waters red with blood . Even weeks and months after the battle , it continued to be visited by parties of soldiers ...
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... torrent foaming through its noble crags , on whose crests and sides are neat villages , built of white stone . " All he had loved and moulded into thought , From shape , and hue , and odour , and sweet sound , Grieved for Adonis ...
... torrent foaming through its noble crags , on whose crests and sides are neat villages , built of white stone . " All he had loved and moulded into thought , From shape , and hue , and odour , and sweet sound , Grieved for Adonis ...
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... torrent , the cavern , the dizzy precipice , and the midnight hymn mingling with the blast . Is this a place for religious joy and consolation , for hope , breaking through the veil of time into the splendours of eternity ? To a ...
... torrent , the cavern , the dizzy precipice , and the midnight hymn mingling with the blast . Is this a place for religious joy and consolation , for hope , breaking through the veil of time into the splendours of eternity ? To a ...
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Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated: In a Series of ..., Volumen1 John Carne,William Purser Vista de fragmentos - 1836 |
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
Pasajes populares
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.