Uncle Oliver's Travels: PersiaCharles Knight, 1835 |
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... grounds , about four miles from London . It had been the custom to call it Grove House , ' and I made no change in its name . To this house I removed the family of my brother , giving the manage- ment of all its concerns to his widow ...
... grounds , about four miles from London . It had been the custom to call it Grove House , ' and I made no change in its name . To this house I removed the family of my brother , giving the manage- ment of all its concerns to his widow ...
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... ground near the base of the mountain . This my experience taught me must be a town ; and , as it was so in- distinct , I knew I must be much farther from the mountain than I imagined . On inquiry I found that it would take me nearly ...
... ground near the base of the mountain . This my experience taught me must be a town ; and , as it was so in- distinct , I knew I must be much farther from the mountain than I imagined . On inquiry I found that it would take me nearly ...
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... ground of the valley , diversified by orchards , and by fields of corn ready to be reaped , makes one think of autumn . Speaking generally , the aspect of Persian mountains is very forbidding . They present THE MOUNTAINS . 39.
... ground of the valley , diversified by orchards , and by fields of corn ready to be reaped , makes one think of autumn . Speaking generally , the aspect of Persian mountains is very forbidding . They present THE MOUNTAINS . 39.
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... ground was everywhere of the same height . But this is far from being the case , for in many countries the ground gradually rises until the level ground is higher than a tall mountain near the sea - shore would be . So , for example ...
... ground was everywhere of the same height . But this is far from being the case , for in many countries the ground gradually rises until the level ground is higher than a tall mountain near the sea - shore would be . So , for example ...
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... ground was strewed with feathers , bones , and car- cases , which were the remains of birds , beasts , and reptiles that had ventured too far in , and perished . The men , however , who had guided me to the cave came prepared to prove ...
... ground was strewed with feathers , bones , and car- cases , which were the remains of birds , beasts , and reptiles that had ventured too far in , and perished . The men , however , who had guided me to the cave came prepared to prove ...
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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.