The Howadji in SyriaHarper & Brothers, Publishers, 1852 - 8 Seiten |
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... feel here , as elsewhere in the East , that the national character and manners are in- fluenced by the desert , as those of maritime races by the sea . This fateful repose , this strange stillness , this uni- versal melancholy in men's ...
... feel here , as elsewhere in the East , that the national character and manners are in- fluenced by the desert , as those of maritime races by the sea . This fateful repose , this strange stillness , this uni- versal melancholy in men's ...
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... I was not sorry to feel that I was lying on the desert . Once at midnight in a ship at sea , I awoke and was conscious of the gentle rocking of the ocean . I knew that the moon was bright upon the canvass above , ENCAMPING . 37.
... I was not sorry to feel that I was lying on the desert . Once at midnight in a ship at sea , I awoke and was conscious of the gentle rocking of the ocean . I knew that the moon was bright upon the canvass above , ENCAMPING . 37.
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... feel the full force of the name , " ship of the desert , " applied to the camel . For not only is he the means of navigation , but his roll is like that of a vessel , and his long , flexible neck like a pliant bowsprit . The resemblance ...
... feel the full force of the name , " ship of the desert , " applied to the camel . For not only is he the means of navigation , but his roll is like that of a vessel , and his long , flexible neck like a pliant bowsprit . The resemblance ...
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... passed before , then you feel that this germ , changeless at home , is only developed elsewhere , that the boundless desert freedom is only a resultless romance . The sun sets and the camp is pitched . The AMONG THE BEDOUEEN . 61.
... passed before , then you feel that this germ , changeless at home , is only developed elsewhere , that the boundless desert freedom is only a resultless romance . The sun sets and the camp is pitched . The AMONG THE BEDOUEEN . 61.
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... feel him , not without a growl of ill- humor , quaking and rolling beneath you , and finally , with a half sudden start , sinking to the ground . You tie his bent fore - knee together , with the halter which goes around his head ; and ...
... feel him , not without a growl of ill- humor , quaking and rolling beneath you , and finally , with a half sudden start , sinking to the ground . You tie his bent fore - knee together , with the halter which goes around his head ; and ...
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Seite 211 - 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 grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Seite 9 - For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow. Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure ; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure.
Seite 181 - And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Seite 159 - Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Seite 251 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Seite 264 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Seite 62 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Seite 153 - For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord) make his paths straight.