The Howadji in SyriaHarper & Brothers, Publishers, 1856 - 8 pages |
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Arabian Arabs Armenian Baalbec bazaar beautiful Bedoueen blue cafés Cairo camels caravan chibouque Christian church commander court Damascus dark Dead Sea desert desolation dome donkey door dream East eastern Egypt eyes faith fancy feel figure flash flowers forever gardens gate genius glory Golden Sleeve grace green heart hills holy horizon horses houris Howadji hushed Jerusalem Jordan Khadra land landscape Lebanon Leisurlie light look luxury MacWhirter marble Mehemet Mehemet Ali melancholy minarets mind morning mosque Mount Mount of Olives mountains muezzin Muslim night odor olive oriental Pacha Palestine palms Paradise passed paused picturesque pilgrims plain pleasant poet Pomegranate Prophet remember rode romance Rome rose sand Saracens shadow shekh Shiraz silence singing smile smoke solitary splendor stream suddenly sweet Syrian Täib temple tent thought tomb trees twilight vague valley walls warm wilderness wind wonder
Popular passages
Page 285 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 176 - 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.
Page 169 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Page 204 - 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.
Page 61 - There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in' the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books...
Page 289 - 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!
Page 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...
Page 169 - 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.
Page 285 - In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seema to sweat, While each peculiar Power forgoes his wonted seat.