Persia: Through Persia from the Gulf to the CaspianJ. B. Millet, 1910 - 323 páginas |
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... wonder which have furnished nursery tales for countless ages , and will supply them for all time to come . Persian poetry stands among the highest in the ranks of the literature of the world . Persian history is a series of the most ...
... wonder which have furnished nursery tales for countless ages , and will supply them for all time to come . Persian poetry stands among the highest in the ranks of the literature of the world . Persian history is a series of the most ...
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... wonder , however , that the Arabs , though they looked upon these new ships of another and more powerful build than theirs with awe , yet met their challenge without fear , trusting in the natural defences of their harbour . To - day ...
... wonder , however , that the Arabs , though they looked upon these new ships of another and more powerful build than theirs with awe , yet met their challenge without fear , trusting in the natural defences of their harbour . To - day ...
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... wonder that men fleeing from the law which they had outraged in their own land should fling off all restraint here , where order there was none and the Ten Commandments lacked the ordinance of man to put them into force . Foremost among ...
... wonder that men fleeing from the law which they had outraged in their own land should fling off all restraint here , where order there was none and the Ten Commandments lacked the ordinance of man to put them into force . Foremost among ...
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... wonder and mystery of this historic sea , one draws near to the journey's end . The sky is clear with more than the clearness of an Indian blue , the sea an ever - changing mass of colour in every exquisite shade of sapphire and green ...
... wonder and mystery of this historic sea , one draws near to the journey's end . The sky is clear with more than the clearness of an Indian blue , the sea an ever - changing mass of colour in every exquisite shade of sapphire and green ...
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... wonder that most wayfarers , hauling themselves laboriously up its rocky slope , have unquestioningly accepted an earlier traveller's erroneous derivation and named it the Cursed Pass . Truly one needs the lightness and surefootedness ...
... wonder that most wayfarers , hauling themselves laboriously up its rocky slope , have unquestioningly accepted an earlier traveller's erroneous derivation and named it the Cursed Pass . Truly one needs the lightness and surefootedness ...
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Persia: Through Persia from the Gulf to the Caspian Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt Vista completa - 1910 |
Persia: Through Persia from the Gulf to the Caspian Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt Vista completa - 1910 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abadeh Achæmenian kings Ahuramazda Arab arches bas-relief beauty beneath British building built Bushire capital caravan caravanserai carriage centre century charvadar cliff close colour Consulate courtyard Cyrus Darius doubtless English enormous entrance eyes face famous Fath Ali Shah feet high figure foot further garden gateway glory Gulf Hafiz Hall hand height hills horses hundred Indian inscription Ispahan Jaffir Khan journey Julfa Kerim Khan King of Kings Kishm kotals land lies looks magnificent Mejliss miles mosque mules Murghab Muscat Nadir Shah night once one's Ormuz palace pass Persepolis Persian plain platform Prince-Governor remains rise road rock roof round royal ruins runs Sadi Sassanian scene seems Shah Abbas Shapur Shiraz side sight sowars stands steep stone stood strange stretch suddenly tablet Teheran telegraph things to-day tomb tower traveller trees valley village walls whole wonder Xerxes Zoroastrian
Pasajes populares
Página 191 - 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 192 - 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 192 - And a dew was distill'd from their flowers, that gave All the fragrance of summer, when summer was gone. Thus memory draws from delight, ere it dies, \ ".> An essence that breathes of it many a year...
Página 161 - Firdaus rue zamtn ast — hamin ast to, hamin ast to, hamin ast (If there is a paradise on earth it is this, it is this, it is this).
Página 164 - Having become weary of the society of my friends at Damascus, I set out for the wilderness of Jerusalem, and associated with the brutes, until I was made prisoner by the Franks, who set me to work along with Jews at digging in the fosse of Tripolis, till one of the principal men of Aleppo, between whom and myself a former intimacy had subsisted, passed that way and recognized me, and said, " What state is this ? and how are you living ?
Página 165 - God! from the pains of hell." At length she gave vent to reproaches, and said, "Art thou not he whom my father purchased from the Franks
Página 24 - though familiarised with the navigation of all the seas, shed " bitter tears, and had forgotten all his science. * * * For " myself, in this situation, with tears in my eyes I gave my" self up for lost. Through the effect of the stupor, and of " the profound sadness to which I began a prey, I remained, " like the sea, with my lips dry and my eyes moist.
Página 243 - I know, I am Cyrus, who founded the empire of the Persians. Grudge me not therefore this little earth that covers my body.
Página 172 - O give Love's sportful joys; Youth, and all that youth employs ; Wine like rubies bright, and red ; And the board with dainties spread ; Gay associates, fond to join In the cup of circling wine ! Give the handmaid's lip divine, Blushing deeper than her wine ; Minstrels vers'd in tuneful art ; And the friend that's next our heart ; With the valued, cheerful soul, Drainer of the brim-full bowl ! Give the nymph, that's tender, kindi Pure in heart, and pure in mind, n 2 As th...
Página 186 - O joyous and gay is the New Year's Day, and in Shiraz most of all ; Even the stranger forgets his home, and becomes its willing thrall. O'er the garden's Egypt, Joseph-like, the fair red rose is King, And the Zephyr, e'en to the heart of the town, doth the scent of his raiment bring.