Walks about the City and Environs of JerusalemG. Virtue, 1844 - 224 páginas |
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... , backed by the magnificent ranges of Mount Lebanon , rising gradually one above another , dotted with convents and villages , up to the very snow on their summits . All this ground was familiar to me B 2 INTRODUCTION . 3.
... , backed by the magnificent ranges of Mount Lebanon , rising gradually one above another , dotted with convents and villages , up to the very snow on their summits . All this ground was familiar to me B 2 INTRODUCTION . 3.
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... rising out of the sea , on their rocky reef . Here is the Mount of Richard the plain where the mailed host of Crusaders encamped , and which resounded with the tramp of their war - horses . Scene upon scene arises before the mind , of ...
... rising out of the sea , on their rocky reef . Here is the Mount of Richard the plain where the mailed host of Crusaders encamped , and which resounded with the tramp of their war - horses . Scene upon scene arises before the mind , of ...
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... Rising at midnight , we pursued our way by the light of the innumerable stars - glorious in the blue depth of an Asian sky . Not a sound was heard but the tramp of our horses ' hoofs upon the rocky pathway . The out- lines of the hilly ...
... Rising at midnight , we pursued our way by the light of the innumerable stars - glorious in the blue depth of an Asian sky . Not a sound was heard but the tramp of our horses ' hoofs upon the rocky pathway . The out- lines of the hilly ...
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... rising from the base of Niagara ; -but this night's march across the desolate hills of Judea awoke a more sublime , more thrilling interest . I was approaching the walls of that city ( the scene of events which must ever remain the most ...
... rising from the base of Niagara ; -but this night's march across the desolate hills of Judea awoke a more sublime , more thrilling interest . I was approaching the walls of that city ( the scene of events which must ever remain the most ...
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... rising among the wrecks of the Pagan temples of Adrian . Hosts of pilgrims poured into Pales- tine . Monastic life was everywhere established , and the traveller sees in the gloomy solitudes of St. Saba , and the inaccessible crags of ...
... rising among the wrecks of the Pagan temples of Adrian . Hosts of pilgrims poured into Pales- tine . Monastic life was everywhere established , and the traveller sees in the gloomy solitudes of St. Saba , and the inaccessible crags of ...
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Página 27 - But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice...
Página 100 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Página 72 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 72 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos; or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Página 22 - The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
Página 25 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away ! for, lo ! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell.
Página 63 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Página 145 - What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock ? 17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
Página 66 - Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more: her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
Página 54 - The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.