Waraga, Or, The Charms of the NileBaker & Scribner, 1850 - 456 pages |
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Achmet amid ancient animated Antinopolis antiquities Arabs Assuan backsheesh bank bark Baron bazaars beautiful boat Cadi Cairo camel canal cangiah capital cartouches chambers colors columns course court crew crocodiles crowds desert donkeys doum palm dragoman edifice Egypt Egyptian feet fellahs gate Geezeh Ghawazees GIRGEH graceful grand granite grottoes Haboo Hadji-Bab Hassan Herodotus hieroglyphics honor huge images intaglios interesting Karnac Keneh king land Luxor magnificent Mehemet Mehemet Ali monuments morning mosque mounds mountains mummy mysterious night Nile Nilometer Nubian obelisk Oriental Osiris ourselves Pacha painted palace palms party passed peculiar pillars plain port present pronaos Ptolemies pyramids Reis repose rich river rocks ruins sail sailors Sakkarah sand Savak scene sculptured sepulchres shadows Sheik shore side sight sphinxes stone stood stream temple Thebes tion tombs towers town travellers village walked walls watched whilst wild wind women wonder
Popular passages
Page 226 - The historic muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust : But fairer wreaths are due, though never paid, To those who, posted at the shrine of Truth, Have fallen in her defence.
Page 181 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 190 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 456 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt...
Page 199 - Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Page 154 - Behold, therefore, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
Page 445 - Saleh, who was anxious to add to the splendor of the hitherto simple procession of the Faithful ; and the dangers of the journey were at the same time greatly decreased by an additional reinforcement of guards. The Kiswet e' Nebbee is the lining of the Kaaba, or temple of Mecca. It is of rich silk, adorned with Arabic sentences embroidered in gold, and is yearly supplied from Cairo ; the old one being then returned, and divided into small portions for the benefit or satisfaction of the credulous....
Page 429 - And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord ; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Page 338 - The scenes where ancient bards th' inspiring breath, Ecstatic, felt ; and, from this world retir'd, Convers'd with angels and immortal forms, On gracious errands bent : to save the fall Of virtue struggling on the brink of vice ; In waking whispers, and repeated dreams, To hint pure thought, and warn the...
Page 450 - HABBANIN. 451 the Shekh rides over their bodies ; the assembled crowd frequently contending with each other to obtain one of these degrading posts, and giving proofs of wild fanaticism which those who have not witnessed it could not easily imagine.