Nile notes, by a traveller [G.W. Curtis]. |
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... sand simple stories , a thousand ballads of love and woe trooped like drooping birds through the sky - like vagueness of my mind . Rosamond Grey , and the child of Elle passed phantom - like with vailed faces , -for love , and sor- row ...
... sand simple stories , a thousand ballads of love and woe trooped like drooping birds through the sky - like vagueness of my mind . Rosamond Grey , and the child of Elle passed phantom - like with vailed faces , -for love , and sor- row ...
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... sands , And then take hands- Curtsied when you have , and list , ( The wild waves whist , ) Foot it featly here and there , And sweet sprites the burden bear . Hark , hark ! The watch - dog's bark . " Such aerial witchery was in the ...
... sands , And then take hands- Curtsied when you have , and list , ( The wild waves whist , ) Foot it featly here and there , And sweet sprites the burden bear . Hark , hark ! The watch - dog's bark . " Such aerial witchery was in the ...
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... sand - grains out- numbering all thy dear drops of water are behind us , to maintain our might and subdue thee , fond , fair river ! " But it glides unheeded at their base , lithely swing- ing its long unbroken phalanx of sweet water ...
... sand - grains out- numbering all thy dear drops of water are behind us , to maintain our might and subdue thee , fond , fair river ! " But it glides unheeded at their base , lithely swing- ing its long unbroken phalanx of sweet water ...
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... sand mountains , and of this sublime sweep of luminous sky - and silence is the mother of mystery . Primitive man so surrounded , can then do nothing but what is simple and grand . The pyramids . reproduce the impression and the form of ...
... sand mountains , and of this sublime sweep of luminous sky - and silence is the mother of mystery . Primitive man so surrounded , can then do nothing but what is simple and grand . The pyramids . reproduce the impression and the form of ...
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... sand mountain side , with a stately arcade of palms on the smooth green below , floats upon his eye through the serene sky as the ideal of that mighty Temple which Egyptian architecture struggles to realize - and he feels that he be ...
... sand mountain side , with a stately arcade of palms on the smooth green below , floats upon his eye through the serene sky as the ideal of that mighty Temple which Egyptian architecture struggles to realize - and he feels that he be ...
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Page 258 - 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, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 258 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers : the silken tackle 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, Enthroned i...
Page 258 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle 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, Enthroned in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Page 122 - 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.