A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Comprising Recollections, Sketches, and Reflections, Made During a Tour in the East, Band 2D. Appleton, 1835 |
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Ablla amongst Antar appeared Arabian Arabs Bairout Balbec beautiful Bedouin Ben-Abess Bosphorus camels caravan Chaiboub Christian coast colour columns Constantinople convent courser covered Damascus Dead Sea descended desert distance Djida Druses earth Emir Europe father feet foam foot gardens gate Greek gulf head heart hills Holy horizon horsemen horses hour hundred Ibrahim immense inhabitants Jaffa Jericho Jerusalem Judea Kaled leagues Lebanon Libanus light magnificent marble Maronite Mehemet Ali monasteries monks monuments mosque Mount Mount of Olives mountains nature night Olives ourselves Pacha passed piastres plain platform present Ramla religion river road rock round ruins sand Scheik sepulchre shade shore side slaves snow spot stone summit Syria temple tent terraces thousand tion tomb torrent town traveller trees tribe Tripoli Turkish Turks valley Valley of Jehoshaphat vast vessels village walls warriors waves whole wind women Zoheir
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Seite 17 - ... we saw, indeed, no living object, heard no living sound; we found the same void, the same silence at the entrance of a city containing thirty thousand souls, during the twelve hours of the day, as we should have expected before the entombed gates of Pompeii or Herculaneum.
Seite 17 - No noise arises from her squares and streets, no roads lead to her gates from the east or from the west, from the north or from the south, except a few paths winding among the rocks, on which you meet only half-naked Arabs, some camel-drivers from Damascus...
Seite 110 - Maintenant tout est mort dans ma maison aride , Deux yeux toujours pleurant sont toujours devant moi ; Je vais sans savoir où, j'attends sans savoir quoi; Mes bras s'ouvrent à rien , et se ferment à vide. Tous mes jours et mes nuits sont de même couleur; La prière en mon sein avec l'espoir est morte. Mais c'est Dieu qui t'écrase , ô mon âme ! Sois forte , Baise sa main sous la douleur!
Seite 108 - C'était le seul anneau de ma chaîne brisée, Le seul coin pur et bleu dans tout mon horizon, Pour que son nom sonnât plus doux dans la maison, D'un nom mélodieux nous l'avions baptisée. C'était mon univers, mon mouvement, mon bruit, La voix qui m'enchantait dans toutes mes demeures, Le charme ou le souci de mes yeux, de mes heures, Mon matin, mon soir et ma nuit...
Seite 363 - ... melt. These trees diminish in every succeeding age. Travellers formerly counted thirty or forty; more recently, seventeen ; more recently still, only twelve. There are now but seven. These, however, from their size and general appearance, may be fairly presumed to have existed in Biblical times.
Seite 250 - On every side he beheld marble doors of prodigious dimensions, windows and niches bordered with exquisite sculpture, richly ornamented arches, fragments of cornices, entablatures, and capitals : — ' The master-works of art, the wrecks of ages, lay scattered as thickly as the grains of dust beneath our feet. All was mystery, confusion, inexplicable wonder. No sooner had we cast an admiring glance on one side, than some new prodigy attracted us on the others. Every attempt we made to interpret the...
Seite 12 - Kedron and the valley, bears several old tombs of kings and patriarchs, formed in gigantic and singular architecture, and strides like the bridge of death over the valley of lamentations.
Seite 251 - But this impression can only be felt by those whose eyes have been previously exercised by the contemplation of the pure monuments of Athens and Rome; every other eye would be fascinated by the splendour of the forms and the finish of the ornaments. The only fault is too much richness ; the stone groans beneath the weight of its own luxuriance, and the walls are overspread with a lace-work of marble.
Seite 363 - These, however, from their size and general appearance, may be fairly presumed to have existed in Biblical times. Around these ancient witnesses of ages long since past, there still remains a little grove of yellow cedars, appearing to me to form a group of from 400 to 500 trees or shrubs.
Seite 362 - ... veneration for these trees. They attribute to them not only a vegetative power which enables them to live eternally, but also an intelligence which causes them to manifest signs of wisdom and foresight, similar to those of instinct and reason in man. They are said to understand the changes of seasons ; they stir their vast branches as if they were limbs ; they spread out or contract their boughs, inclining them towards heaven or towards earth, according as the snow prepares to fall or to melt.