The Ansayrii, and the Assassins, with travels in the Further east, in 1850-51, Volume 1 |
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Aintab Aleppo amidst ancient Ansayrii antiquity appears Arabs arches Armenian arrived baggage banks bazaars beauty Bedawee beneath Beyrout built called castle Christians church coffee Constantinople curious Dahhal Damascus Desert Diarbekr Djebel dress East Eastern Emir encampment Euphrates fellow fire Frank friends gardens gate half Hamath hand handsome Haran hill Homs horses huge Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants inscription khan Koords LADY HESTER STANHOPE Latakia Legend lovely Mahomet mare Maronite minaret Montselim Moslem mosque Mosul mother mountains Mussulman nargillehs native never night Orfa passed perhaps piastres pipe plain poor prayer pretty probably Prophet residence rest river road rock rode round ruins Saphi Saracens sects seemed SERVANT OF LADY sheik side Sidon smoking stone Sultan Syria tents tobacco tombs town traveller Turkish Turkomans Turks village walk walls whole wild women
Popular passages
Page 130 - The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
Page 197 - And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Page 59 - And a dew was distill'd from their flowers that gave All the fragrance of summer, when summer was gone. Thus memory draws from delight, ere it dies, , An essence that breathes of it many a year ; Thus bright to my soul, as 'twas then to my eyes, Is that bower on the banks of the calm Bendemeer...
Page 59 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Page 101 - ... ought, if you can, to go on the first and hold back the bough of the rose-tree. And through this wilderness there tumbles a loud rushing stream, which is halted at last in the lowest corner of the garden, and there tossed up in a fountain by the side of the simple alcove. This is all. Never for an instant will the people of Damascus attempt to separate the idea of bliss from these wild gardens and rushing waters.
Page 52 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...
Page 160 - See the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very tombs now vanished like their dead!
Page 279 - Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me into this land, must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou earnest?
Page 278 - I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water...
Page 352 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing mill be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.