Excursions in the Holy land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, etc, Volumen11834 |
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Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, Etc: Including A Visit to ... John Madox Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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Abdrebbo Alexandria Anapus anchor appeared Arabs Argostoli armed arrived ascended banks beautiful boat brought built Cairo called Cambrian camels cangea Captain Hamilton castle cataract close coffee colours columns Consul corn date-trees delightful dined dinner distance dressed eight entered entrance excavating fired four going Greeks Gulf of Smyrna guns harbour head hieroglyphics hour houses hovels Hydra immense inhabitants island janizary Janni landed Luxor Malta miles Missolonghi morning moun mountains Mylopotamo Napoli natives nearly night Nile o'clock party Pasha passed piastres pipe plain pleasant Pompey's Pillar proceeded pyramid remains returned river rock rode Romania round ruins sailed sands scenery second cataract sent sheik ship shore side Smyrna soldiers soon stone streets sunset tain temple Thebes told tomb took town trees Turkish Turks vessel village Wady Halfa walked walls wind wine women
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Página 89 - What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid; But somebody or other, rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.
Página 301 - Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides ; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand ; Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe ; Like other charmers, wooing the caress More dazzlingly when daring in full dress ; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties — Give...
Página 382 - I had frequently teen on the banks of the Nile a bird about the size of a dove, or perhaps rather larger, of handsome plumage, and making a twittering noise when on the wing. It has a peculiar motion of the head, as if nodding to some one near it, at the same time turning itself to the right and left, and making its conge twice or thrice before its departure; a mark of politeness I never before met with in any of the feathered tribe.
Página x - ... improving the size, if not the flavour of this fruit. The English name of currant seems to have been taken from the similitude of the fruit to that of the small Zante grapes, which we call currants, or Corinths, from Corinth, where this fruit formerly grew in great abundance, and which are so much used in this country for cakes, puddings, &c.
Página 207 - I inclose ; the former is cut on a white marble pedestal which has been much injured, and the latter is said to have formed part of a large inscription which a...
Página 382 - Crocodiled tooth-picker,— \ have frequently seen on the banks of the Nile a bird about the size of a dove, or perhaps rather larger, of handsome plumage, and making a twittering when on the wing.
Página 207 - Europeans from disturbing this holy retreat — a cottage which he had built on an adjoining hill, where many remains of a white marble temple are still to be traced. This priest is luckily dead, or otherwise the theatre would have stood...
Página 206 - The seats at present opened are seven \n number, beautifully worked out of. large masses of the finest marble, forming a segment of a circle, whose diameter, it completed, would be 116 feet. The^ situation of this theatre is one of the finest that can be imagined; it stands a hundred feet above the level of the sea, and commands in front a noble prospect over the harbor to the mountains on the opposite side, and is backed by lofty hills rising one behind the other up to the turretcd village of Castro.
Página 54 - There are many of them in a cluster, of a dark green colour, and each tree of a rather short, bushy appearance. I walked under, and gathered some of the gum, which falls off in transparent drops. In August they prick the tree, and the gum oozes out...