Uncle Oliver's Travels: PersiaCharles Knight, 1835 |
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... Italian and the Turk , in their fine climates and beautiful countries , can be . I never knew a people that talked with so much rapture about their country as the Persians . The praises of " the Land of Iran " are for ever in their ...
... Italian and the Turk , in their fine climates and beautiful countries , can be . I never knew a people that talked with so much rapture about their country as the Persians . The praises of " the Land of Iran " are for ever in their ...
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... Italy vast quantities are consumed - not exactly as an article of diet , but as a relish with bread . H. What does it look like ? U. O. I hardly know what to compare it to ; but it is of a black colour , and seems a sort of jelly ...
... Italy vast quantities are consumed - not exactly as an article of diet , but as a relish with bread . H. What does it look like ? U. O. I hardly know what to compare it to ; but it is of a black colour , and seems a sort of jelly ...
Page 264
... will read it to you . A young nobleman relates the incident thus to his friend : - Passing from Italy to Greece , the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe , bred in me Desire of 264 PERSIA .
... will read it to you . A young nobleman relates the incident thus to his friend : - Passing from Italy to Greece , the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe , bred in me Desire of 264 PERSIA .
Page 277
... Italy , where also they are found in great numbers , and do some mischief . F. I never heard before that any sort of spider was venomous . U.O. I really think that most spiders are more or less venomous , although only the tarantula has ...
... Italy , where also they are found in great numbers , and do some mischief . F. I never heard before that any sort of spider was venomous . U.O. I really think that most spiders are more or less venomous , although only the tarantula has ...
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... Italian doctors that the wound is followed by any thing worse than a slight inflammation . I cannot help thinking , however , that if this be true , some change in the climate of Italy , or in the food of the taran- tula , may have ...
... Italian doctors that the wound is followed by any thing worse than a slight inflammation . I cannot help thinking , however , that if this be true , some change in the climate of Italy , or in the food of the taran- tula , may have ...
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Page 241 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, • But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die...
Page 265 - Paradise. To Thessaly I came, and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me: I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art and nature ever were at strife in.
Page 265 - Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice ; To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly So many voluntaries, and so quick That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight.
Page 272 - Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumn storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks.
Page 265 - The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own ; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to...
Page 98 - As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing.
Page 265 - Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice : To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing...
Page 101 - I applied to the Arabs to be informed in what manner we were to pass the water. Our interpreter, although a Greek, and therefore likely to have been informed of such a phenomenon, was as fully convinced as any of us that we were drawing near to the water's edge, and became indignant when the Arabs maintained that within an hour we should reach Rosetta by crossing the sands in the direct line we then pursued, and that there was no water.
Page 118 - 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...
Page 33 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.