To Bagdad and BackCentury Company, 1928 - 298 páginas |
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... looked forward to a feast , on a Gargantuan scale , on the glories of the splendid past still living in our unromantic day and date . Tingling with excitement , I forgot the discomforts of my cramped position in the car . I looked out ...
... looked forward to a feast , on a Gargantuan scale , on the glories of the splendid past still living in our unromantic day and date . Tingling with excitement , I forgot the discomforts of my cramped position in the car . I looked out ...
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... looked the people appeared grim and silent , but not unhappy . The beggar women , with mutilated faces , clasping in their arms babes whose sore eyes were covered with flies , was a gruesome sight and a reminder of the prevailing ...
... looked the people appeared grim and silent , but not unhappy . The beggar women , with mutilated faces , clasping in their arms babes whose sore eyes were covered with flies , was a gruesome sight and a reminder of the prevailing ...
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... reach the room at the top which was to be my Bagdad domicile . From the high ceiling hung a huge fan five feet in diameter . While the porter was engaged in getting it in motion , I looked about me . The floor [ 13 ]
... reach the room at the top which was to be my Bagdad domicile . From the high ceiling hung a huge fan five feet in diameter . While the porter was engaged in getting it in motion , I looked about me . The floor [ 13 ]
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Joe Mitchell Chapple. in motion , I looked about me . The floor was covered with rugs and the walls were hung with them . There were rugs in every nook and corner of the place , which furnished a cosy welcome . The solemn - visaged ...
Joe Mitchell Chapple. in motion , I looked about me . The floor was covered with rugs and the walls were hung with them . There were rugs in every nook and corner of the place , which furnished a cosy welcome . The solemn - visaged ...
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... looked dismal and uninviting . There was a lack of music , and the bright lights proclaiming our " movie " houses were missing . The native fans are most discriminating . The only expression of appre- ciation noticeable was when the ...
... looked dismal and uninviting . There was a lack of music , and the bright lights proclaiming our " movie " houses were missing . The native fans are most discriminating . The only expression of appre- ciation noticeable was when the ...
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Página 148 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Página 16 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Página 98 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 296 - Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me - in vain!
Página 111 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!
Página 296 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Página 84 - And those who husbanded the Golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
Página 136 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Página 250 - Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! KUZA-NAMA LIX Listen again.
Página 84 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep ; And Bahrain, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.