Mountain Life in Algeria, Volume 297K. Paul, Trench, 1882 - 119 pages |
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Aïth Ménguellath ALGERIA Algiers Amine Anaya appear April Arabic arms attack basin beautiful Berber birds brought burnous called carried civilisation cloth clouds colonists colour corn Dominique dress Fathers feet fight figs flocks Fort National Franco-German war French friends Georgic girdle girl ground hand hast head heard husband Ienni ilexes Iolaus jewellery Jubaleni Jurjura Kabyles Kabylia Kaïd kouskous land language leaves living look Maison Carrée manner marabouts marriage marry morning mosque mountain Muirhead mules natives neighbours night o'er oh Lord olives Ouarzin oxen painting passed path Père picturesque piece ploughing POPE'S Iliad razzia remained Roman rude school-house season seen shade side sirocco sitting slopes sometimes song spring stone stream Sylvestre de Sacy Taourirt tent thee Thililit thou wilt Tizi Ouzou Tizi-Ouzou took Touareg trees tribes vases village walk wild wind woman women word Zachariah
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Page 112 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies: The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 79 - Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Page 102 - And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink ; and instead of a girdle a rent ; and instead of well set hair baldness ; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth ; and burning instead of beauty.
Page 79 - He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone : And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Page 80 - Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Page 102 - In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts Of a people scattered and peeled, And from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; A nation meted out and trodden under foot, Whose land the rivers have spoiled, To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
Page 102 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon...
Page 44 - The waves flow after, wheresoever he wheels, And gather fast, and murmur at his heels. So when a peasant to his garden brings Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs...
Page 62 - For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Page 82 - Patroclus' care Invade the Trojans, and commence the war. As wasps, provoked by children in their play, Pour from their mansions by the broad highway, In swarms the guiltless traveller engage, Whet all their stings, and call forth all their rage ; All rise in arms, and, with a general cry, Assert their waxen domes, and buzzing progeny; Thus from the tents the fervent legion swarms, So loud their clamours, and so keen their arms: Their rising rage Patroclus' breath inspires, Who thus inflames them...