Egypt and Mohammed Ali: Or, Travels in the Valley of the Nile, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1834 - Egypt |
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adorned Alexandria ancient animal antiquity appearance Arabs ARCHITECTURE Aroëris arrived Bahr Youssouff banks beauty Bedouins boats Cairo camels canal caravanserai chamber character columns covered crocodile descending desert discovered dromedaries edifice Egypt Egyptians entered entrance erected excavations extremity favourable Fayoom feet Fellahs female figures Girgeh goddess Gournou Greek ground guides hand harem head Hejaz Herodotus hieroglyphics hundred Ibrahim Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants interior Karnak king labour lake length likewise lofty Luxor magnificent Medinet Memnon ment Moggrebyns Mohammed Mohammed Ali Mohammedan mosque mountains mummies nature night Nile Nilometer obelisks observed ornaments Osiris palaces Pasha passed perhaps persons piastres plain possessed present probably proceeded propylon pyramid regarded resembling river rock ruins sacred Sakkarah sand sculpture seemed serpent Sheikh side stone Strabo Sultan supposed Syria temple Thebes thousand tion tombs travellers trees Turkish Turks vast village walls whole wind women worship
Popular passages
Page 62 - 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...
Page 80 - 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 Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page vi - 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...
Page 67 - 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.
Page 49 - And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt ; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
Page 38 - 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, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Page 63 - Di, quibus imperium est animarum, umbraeque silentes, et Chaos et Phlegethon, loca nocte tacentia late, 265 sit mihi fas audita loqui, sit numine vestro pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas.
Page 55 - Egyptian plain, (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred oars From each wide portal issuing to the wars...
Page vi - How has kind Heaven adorn'd the happy land, 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 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...
Page 580 - Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divumque voluptas, alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis...