Egypt and Mohammed Ali: Or, Travels in the Valley of the Nile, 2. cilt

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1834
 

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Sayfa 58 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet: I should have slept; then had I been at rest: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves...
Sayfa 63 - In amorous ditties all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye survey'd the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Sayfa 76 - High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous east with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Sayfa 548 - The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
Sayfa ii - And scatter'd blessings with a wasteful hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains...
Sayfa 549 - Thus, for the space of one hundred and six years, the Egyptians were exposed to every species of oppression and calamity ; not having had, during this long period, permission to worship in their temples.
Sayfa 34 - In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm: Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Sayfa 59 - She said, and pass'd along the gloomy space: The prince pursu'd her steps with equal pace. Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight! Ye gods, who rule the regions of the night! Ye gliding ghosts ! permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state. Obscure they went through dreary shades, that led Along the waste dominions of the dead.
Sayfa ii - But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains ? The poor inhabitant beholds in vain The...
Sayfa 564 - Mecca, and the pyramids of Egypt"; fancying these last to be the sepulchres of Seth, and of Enoch and Sabi his two sons, whom they look on as the first propagators of their religion ; at these structures they sacrifice a cock and a black calf, and offer up incense y.

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