Travels in Europe and the East: A Year in England, Scotland, Ireland...Harper, 1855 - Europe The first volume covers the author's travel through England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Austria. The second covers the travel to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. The author describes the exciting highlights of his trip--tourist destinations in important cities--and gives some superficial description of the people he encounters. |
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... vailed , but the sacristan , for a trifle , drew the curtain and dis- played a painting of extraordinary power . The fres- coes on some of the outer walls of the old buildings show that here has been the luxury of art in departed days ...
... vailed , but the sacristan , for a trifle , drew the curtain and dis- played a painting of extraordinary power . The fres- coes on some of the outer walls of the old buildings show that here has been the luxury of art in departed days ...
Page 249
... a dozen or more in them , sometimes women closely vailed , sitting by themselves , swept by us , and the whole bay was alive with the various vessels , L * The Mission families . School . steamers , sails and CONSTANTINOPLE . 249.
... a dozen or more in them , sometimes women closely vailed , sitting by themselves , swept by us , and the whole bay was alive with the various vessels , L * The Mission families . School . steamers , sails and CONSTANTINOPLE . 249.
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... vailed Turkish women , who seem to take pleasure in using their musical voices in haggling about prices ; while their ever - roving eyes are watch- ing the merchant - man , and especially his Frank cus- tomers , if any of them are near ...
... vailed Turkish women , who seem to take pleasure in using their musical voices in haggling about prices ; while their ever - roving eyes are watch- ing the merchant - man , and especially his Frank cus- tomers , if any of them are near ...
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... vailed , lest his more powerful neighbor should tear her away from him by fraud or force . Yet I pitied the poor creatures whose soft black eyes , looking wishfully out of that impenetrable shroud , ex- pressed the sense of confinement ...
... vailed , lest his more powerful neighbor should tear her away from him by fraud or force . Yet I pitied the poor creatures whose soft black eyes , looking wishfully out of that impenetrable shroud , ex- pressed the sense of confinement ...
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... vailed whenever they left the state - room ; but as its door was just opposite to mine , and often suddenly thrown open by the motion of the ship , I had several forbidden sights of the charms which the master of these vailed women ...
... vailed whenever they left the state - room ; but as its door was just opposite to mine , and often suddenly thrown open by the motion of the ship , I had several forbidden sights of the charms which the master of these vailed women ...
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ancient Antonio Arabs arms artists ashore Assam Athens beautiful Bedouins boat Bosphorus Calhoun called camels chamber Christian church columns Constantinople dead deck dome door dragoman dressed Egypt entered eyes feet Florence friends gate Golden Horn Greece Greek ground hand head hill Holy horses hour hundred Italy Jaffa Jenin journey King lady land look lying marble midst miles missionaries monuments morning mosque Mount mountains Nablous Naples native night once painting palace Parthenon party passed piastres plain plain of Sharon Pompeii priest ride rock rode Roman Rome ruins sacred Sarepta scene Shechem ship shore side Sidon sight sitting Smyrna soon splendid spot stand statue steamer stone stood streets Sultan summit temple thousand tion Titian tomb tower town travellers Turkish Turks vailed vessel village walked walls wind women wonderful
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Page 145 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 371 - And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Page 80 - It seemed, amidst clustering towers of inferior churches, an emblem of the Catholic hierarchy under its supreme head; like Rome itself, imposing, unbroken, unchangeable, radiating in equal expansion to every part of the earth, and directing its convergent curves to heaven.
Page 286 - THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass ; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John...
Page 135 - And when all beheld Him, where he lay, how changed from yesterday, Him in that hour cut off, and at his head His last great work ; when, entering in, they...
Page 286 - Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Page 145 - He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay: There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Page 361 - It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Page 145 - Were with his heart, and that was far away: He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday — All this rush'd with his blood — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire...
Page 102 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...