A diary of a journey to the East, in the autumn of 1854, 2 vols, Volume 21856 |
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... convent in the city , every morning , remains here all day to tend the garden and admit pilgrims and strangers , and then returns into the city at sunset . The garden does its attendant , apparently a devout and good man , great credit ...
... convent in the city , every morning , remains here all day to tend the garden and admit pilgrims and strangers , and then returns into the city at sunset . The garden does its attendant , apparently a devout and good man , great credit ...
Page 92
... convent of the Baptist , stand on the shore at no great distance from the river . So little daylight remained when we reached the stream , that we lost not an instant in stripping and rushing into it ; which after the bitter , smarting ...
... convent of the Baptist , stand on the shore at no great distance from the river . So little daylight remained when we reached the stream , that we lost not an instant in stripping and rushing into it ; which after the bitter , smarting ...
Page 103
... convent , near to which we had now arrived , overhangs the savage gorge along which we had been riding , and its architecture , in strict keeping with the scene , is more fitted for a fortress or a place of defence , than for a house of ...
... convent , near to which we had now arrived , overhangs the savage gorge along which we had been riding , and its architecture , in strict keeping with the scene , is more fitted for a fortress or a place of defence , than for a house of ...
Page 104
... convent without receiving any notice , at length , however , a man who had reconnoitred us from the top of a high tower , demanded our business , and we shewed him the letter , whereupon a basket was swung down to receive it , and in a ...
... convent without receiving any notice , at length , however , a man who had reconnoitred us from the top of a high tower , demanded our business , and we shewed him the letter , whereupon a basket was swung down to receive it , and in a ...
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... convent itself is a greater wonder than its details . It has now thirty - five monks , and lay brethren in proportion . To my request to be allowed to see the library , my conductor answered that they had no books . The cook of the convent ...
... convent itself is a greater wonder than its details . It has now thirty - five monks , and lay brethren in proportion . To my request to be allowed to see the library , my conductor answered that they had no books . The cook of the convent ...
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Page 114 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.
Page 259 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Page 157 - A countless host, the red-cross warriors came ; E'en hoary priests the sacred combat wage, And clothe in steel the palsied arm of age ; While beardless youths and tender maids assume The weighty morion and the glancing plume. In sportive pride the warrior damsels wield The ponderous falchion, and the sun-like shield, And start to see their armour's iron gleam Dance with blue lustre in Tabaria's stream.
Page 270 - Twas well said of thee, Trim, said my uncle Toby. But when a soldier, said I, an' please your reverence, has been standing for twelve hours together in the trenches, up to his knees in cold water — or engaged...
Page 183 - I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to...
Page 159 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Page 113 - Coarse are his meals, the fortune of the chase, amidst the running stream he slakes his thirst, toils all the day, and at the approach of night on the first friendly bank he throws him down, or rests his head upon a rock till morn: then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, and if the following day he chance to find a new repast, or an untasted spring, blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
Page 158 - And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
Page 181 - Here was the little isle, once covered by her palaces and surrounded by her fleets ; where the builders perfected her beauty in the midst of the seas ; where her merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth...
Page 198 - They, only they, while all around them kneel In sullen homage to the Thracian steel, Teach their pale despot's waning moon to fear The patriot terrors of the mountain spear.