To Bagdad and BackCentury Company, 1928 - 298 páginas |
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... visited looking for Ali to take the keys and open the chest and show me the jewels , precious stones and gold , and the rich garments - to say nothing of the blessings and prayer of the thoughtful father in the case . Throughout this ...
... visited looking for Ali to take the keys and open the chest and show me the jewels , precious stones and gold , and the rich garments - to say nothing of the blessings and prayer of the thoughtful father in the case . Throughout this ...
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... British Army , and later visited by numerous rich oil prospectors . These people seemed to be expecting showers of gold - judging from the fifty thousand tons of Pittsburg pipe delivered on the oil TO BAGDAD AND BACK 7.
... British Army , and later visited by numerous rich oil prospectors . These people seemed to be expecting showers of gold - judging from the fifty thousand tons of Pittsburg pipe delivered on the oil TO BAGDAD AND BACK 7.
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... Visiting their mosques , I watched the pilgrims as they entered . They took off their shoes and fell rev- erently upon their knees on the rugs . Their bodies swayed to and fro and their heads touched the ground as they chanted the ...
... Visiting their mosques , I watched the pilgrims as they entered . They took off their shoes and fell rev- erently upon their knees on the rugs . Their bodies swayed to and fro and their heads touched the ground as they chanted the ...
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... visited the Mosque of the Sheik Abdullah Kader , the dome of which is the finest in all Islam . And thence to the Golden Minarets of Kem - Kazemain , only a few short centuries older than its reincarnation in the city hall at Opa Locka ...
... visited the Mosque of the Sheik Abdullah Kader , the dome of which is the finest in all Islam . And thence to the Golden Minarets of Kem - Kazemain , only a few short centuries older than its reincarnation in the city hall at Opa Locka ...
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... visited " the Street called Straight , " and soon felt right at home . To a Bostonian , accustomed to crooked streets , it was like rounding the curves of Cornhill . This is the " main street " of Damascus as far as the guide books are ...
... visited " the Street called Straight , " and soon felt right at home . To a Bostonian , accustomed to crooked streets , it was like rounding the curves of Cornhill . This is the " main street " of Damascus as far as the guide books are ...
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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.