Nile Notes of a HowadjiHarper, 1856 - 362 pages |
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Aboo Simbel Arabian architecture Asyoot beauty behold birds blue boat Cairo Cambyses castanets cataract chibouque Cleopatra columns Commander crew crocodile dancing dark dead desert donkeys dragoman dream East Eastern Egypt Egyptian Esne fair fancy fascinating feel float flowers forever forms Ghawazee Ghazeeyah golden golden-sleeved graceful grandeur Greek green Hadji hareem heard Hecate Herodotus houris Howadji Ibis Karnak kings kurbash Kushuk Arnem land landscape lingered looked lotus Luxor Mehemet Memnon moonlight morning mountains mystery nargileh Nero never night Nile Nubian oriental Osiris Pacha palms passed Persian Philæ poet pyramids race Ramses river rock Roman rosy ruins sail sakia sand sculptures Seyd shadoof shore silence singing slippers smoke solemn song soul strange stream sunset sweet Syene tarabuka temple Theban Thebes tombs tree tropical turban Verde Giovane voluptuous walls western white Nile wind wings worship Xenobi
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Page 272 - Never ; he will not : Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 117 - Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Page 52 - Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist," Foot it featly" here and there, And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Burden (dispersedly) . Hark, hark! Bow-woW. The watch-dogs bark ! Bow-woW. ART. Hark, hark ! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, " Cock-a-diddle-doW." FER. Where should this music be ? I' the air or the earth ? It sounds no more ; and, sure, it waits upon Some god o
Page 272 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies ; for vilest things 235 Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 227 - From what we could perceive at the first view, it was evidently a very large place ; but our astonishment increased, when we found it to be one of the most magnificent of temples, enriched with beautiful intaglios, painting, colossal figures, &c.
Page 281 - Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 128 - Thus in the ever-closed Hareem, As in the open Western home, Sheds womanhood her starry gleam Over our being's busy foam ; Through latitudes of varying faith Thus trace we still her mission sure, To lighten life, to sweeten death, And all for others to endure.
Page 154 - ... monotony of a tropical life — and partly of the yellow silence of the Desert, and of drear solitudes inaccessible, and of wandering caravans, and lonely men. Then of 'gardens overhanging rivers, that roll gorgeous-shor/ed through Western fancies — of gardens in Bagdad watered by the Euphrates and the Tigris, whereof it was the fringe and darling ornament— of oases in those sere sad deserts where it overfountained fountains, and every leaf was blessed. More than all, of the great Orient...
Page 348 - ... would brightly flash, if we could see them, they fill their jars, and in a long file recede and disappear among the palms. Over the brown mud villages the pigeons coo and fly, and hang by hundreds upon the clumsy towers built for them, and a long pause of sun and silence follows. Presently turbaned Abraham with flowing garment and snowy beard, leaning upon his staff, passes with Sarah along the green path on the river's edge toward Memphis and King Pharaoh. On the opposite desert lingers Hagar...
Page 99 - Over all this brilliance streams the intense sunshine, and completes what itself suggested. So warm, so glowing, and rich, is the universal light and atmosphere, that any thing less than this in architecture, would be unnatural. Strange and imperfect as it is, you feel the heart of nature throbbing all through Eastern art Art there follows the plainest hints of nature in costume and architecture now, as in the antique architecture. The fault of oriental art springs from the very excess, which is...