Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research, with More Than Two Hundred Illustrations and a MapMacmillan, 1906 - 471 páginas |
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... RUINS • 124 XII . HAMADAN , THE ANCIENT ECBATANA · 144 XIII . THE ROCK INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GREAT PERSIAN KINGS XIV . THE GREAT BEHISTAN ROCK AND AN ASCENT TO READ THE CUNEIFORM RECORDS OF KING DARIUS · 175 XV . TAK - I BOSTAN AND ...
... RUINS • 124 XII . HAMADAN , THE ANCIENT ECBATANA · 144 XIII . THE ROCK INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GREAT PERSIAN KINGS XIV . THE GREAT BEHISTAN ROCK AND AN ASCENT TO READ THE CUNEIFORM RECORDS OF KING DARIUS · 175 XV . TAK - I BOSTAN AND ...
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... RUINS OF REI , OR ANCIENT RAGHA . XXVIII . THrough MazaNDARAN TO THE CASPIAN SEA GENERAL INDEX • INDEX OF PASSAGES MAP OF PERSIA PAGE . 245 • 262 • 278 294 321 339 · 353 v 378 • 401 418 • 428 442 449 469 • 472 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS KING ...
... RUINS OF REI , OR ANCIENT RAGHA . XXVIII . THrough MazaNDARAN TO THE CASPIAN SEA GENERAL INDEX • INDEX OF PASSAGES MAP OF PERSIA PAGE . 245 • 262 • 278 294 321 339 · 353 v 378 • 401 418 • 428 442 449 469 • 472 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS KING ...
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... RUINS OF THE TEMPLE AT KANGAVAR 243 From a photograph by the author . PLOWING WITH COWS • From a photograph by the author . PERSIAN SHOVELS . · From a photograph by the author . 246 246 PAGE THE ANCIENT FIRE - TEMPLE NEAR ISFAHAN 254 From.
... RUINS OF THE TEMPLE AT KANGAVAR 243 From a photograph by the author . PLOWING WITH COWS • From a photograph by the author . PERSIAN SHOVELS . · From a photograph by the author . 246 246 PAGE THE ANCIENT FIRE - TEMPLE NEAR ISFAHAN 254 From.
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... RUINS OF STAKHRA From a photograph by Antoin Sevruguin . 302 305 305 307 TAKHT - I TAUS , OR RUSTAM'S THRONE 307 From a photograph by Antoin Sevruguin . SASANIAN SCULPTURE IN THE REAR OF THE RECESS AT NAKSH - I RAJAB 309 From a ...
... RUINS OF STAKHRA From a photograph by Antoin Sevruguin . 302 305 305 307 TAKHT - I TAUS , OR RUSTAM'S THRONE 307 From a photograph by Antoin Sevruguin . SASANIAN SCULPTURE IN THE REAR OF THE RECESS AT NAKSH - I RAJAB 309 From a ...
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... RUINS OF REI , After Restoration From a photograph . 437 TOWER AMONG THE RUINS OF REI , BEFORE RESTORATION From a photograph . 437 • SASANIAN SCULPTURE NOW DESTROYED · · From the drawing of Ouseley , Travels , 3. pl . 65 . MODERN BAS ...
... RUINS OF REI , After Restoration From a photograph . 437 TOWER AMONG THE RUINS OF REI , BEFORE RESTORATION From a photograph . 437 • SASANIAN SCULPTURE NOW DESTROYED · · From the drawing of Ouseley , Travels , 3. pl . 65 . MODERN BAS ...
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Página 290 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Página 379 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary...
Página 253 - He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world's youth ; through the long burning day Gazed on those speechless shapes ; nor, when the moon Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades, Suspended...
Página 290 - twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bower and its music I never forget, But oft when alone, in the bloom of the year, I think — is the nightingale singing there yet ? Are the roses still bright by the calm BENDEMEER?
Página 317 - And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Página 287 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Página 367 - I should like to rise and go Where the golden apples grow; Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie, And, watched by cockatoos and goats. Lonely Crusoes building boats; Where in sunshine reaching out Eastern cities, miles about, Are with mosque and minaret Among sandy gardens set, And the rich goods from near and far Hang for sale in the bazaar; Where the Great Wall round China goes, And on one side the desert blows, And with bell and voice and drum, Cities on the other hum; Where are...
Página 113 - We search out dead men's words, and works of dead men's hands ; We shut our eyes, and muse How our own minds are made...
Página 137 - ... hewn three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits: and set the towers thereof upon the gates of it, an hundred cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the foundation threescore cubits: and he made the gates thereof, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth of them was forty cubits, for the going forth of his mighty armies, and for the setting in array of his footmen...
Página 298 - DISTICHS. I've heard that once a man of high degree From a wolf's teeth and claws a lamb set free. That night its throat he severed with a knife. When thus complained the lamb's departing life, "Thou from the wolf didst save me then, but now, Too plainly I perceive the wolf art thou.