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... figs were offered , and the sweetness of sense and sound that " grape " hath was only bait for the attention ; or " Odors of Paradise , O flowers of the henna , " causing Muslim maidens to tingle to their GOING TO BOULAK . 17.
... figs were offered , and the sweetness of sense and sound that " grape " hath was only bait for the attention ; or " Odors of Paradise , O flowers of the henna , " causing Muslim maidens to tingle to their GOING TO BOULAK . 17.
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... sounds , formless as lightning . " He fills me the glass full and gives me to drink , " sang the leader , and the low measured chorus throbbed after him , " Hum- meleager malooshee . " The sounds were not a tune , but a kind of measured ...
... sounds , formless as lightning . " He fills me the glass full and gives me to drink , " sang the leader , and the low measured chorus throbbed after him , " Hum- meleager malooshee . " The sounds were not a tune , but a kind of measured ...
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... sound the ex- pression of a fine dog's face , or that of a meditative cow , the Howadji would fancy that he heard Nile music . For , after all , that placid and perfect animal expression would be melancholy humanity . And with the crew ...
... sound the ex- pression of a fine dog's face , or that of a meditative cow , the Howadji would fancy that he heard Nile music . For , after all , that placid and perfect animal expression would be melancholy humanity . And with the crew ...
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... sound was a lyric of sorrow . The fair Armenian listened silently as the caravan wound slowly along , her eyes musily fixed upon the East , where the flower - fringed Euphrates flows through Bagdad to the sea . The fair Armenian had her ...
... sound was a lyric of sorrow . The fair Armenian listened silently as the caravan wound slowly along , her eyes musily fixed upon the East , where the flower - fringed Euphrates flows through Bagdad to the sea . The fair Armenian had her ...
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... sound , so naturally born of silence . Meanwhile our crew are singing , although we have slid upon their music , and the moonlight , far forward into the desert . But these are the forms and feelings that their singing suggested . While ...
... sound , so naturally born of silence . Meanwhile our crew are singing , although we have slid upon their music , and the moonlight , far forward into the desert . But these are the forms and feelings that their singing suggested . While ...
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Page 232 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 47 - Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist," Foot it featly" here and there, And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Burden (dispersedly) . Hark, hark! Bow-woW. The watch-dogs bark ! Bow-woW. ART. Hark, hark ! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, " Cock-a-diddle-doW." FER. Where should this music be ? I' the air or the earth ? It sounds no more ; and, sure, it waits upon Some god o
Page 232 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers : the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned i...
Page 104 - Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Page 232 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Agr: O, rare for Antony! Eno: Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 102 - And though nature be the mirror of our moods — we can yet sometimes escape ourselves — as we can sometimes forget all laws. " Go abroad and forget yourself," is good advice. The Prodigal was long and ruinously abroad before he came to himself. And poets celebrate the law unlimited, which circumstances constantly limit. You would fancy Thomson an early riser. Yet that placid poet, who rented the castle of indolence, and made it the House Beautiful, so tha't all who pass are fain to tarry, used...
Page 6 - Moslem artisans home-returning from their work. To the mere Moslem observer, they were carpenters, masons, labourers, and tradesmen of all kinds. We passed many a meditating Cairene, to whom there was nothing but the monotony of an old story in that evening and in that road. But we saw all the pageantry of Oriental romance quietly donkeying into Cairo. I saw Fadladeen with a gorgeous turban and a long sash.
Page 124 - ... dashing in regular measure against her movelessness, until suddenly the whole surface of her frame quivered in measure with the music. Her hands were raised, clapping the castanets, and she slowly turned upon herself, her right leg the pivot, marvellously convulsing all the muscles of her body. When she had completed the circuit of the spot on which she stood, she advanced slowly, all the muscles jerking in time to the music, and in solid, substantial spasms. It was a curious and wonderful gymnastic....
Page 209 - the most extraordinary thing is what relates to the death of their kings. The priests, who superintend the worship of the Gods, and the ceremonies of religion, in Meroe/ enjoy such unlimited power, that, whenever they choose, they send a messenger to the king, ordering him to die, for that the gods had given this command, and no mortal could oppose their will, without being guilty of a crime. They also add other reasons, which would influence a man of weak mind, accustomed to give way to old custom...
Page 7 - Babel jargon. Yet had erudite Mr. Lane accompanied us, Mr. Lane, the eastern Englishman, who has given us so many golden glimpses into the silence and mystery of oriental life, like a good genius re vealing to ardent lovers the very hallowed heart of the hareem, we should have understood those cries.