Travels in Luristan and Arabistan, Volumen1J. Madden and Company, 1845 - 4 páginas |
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a-half ancient Aniran appears Arab Ardekán Arreján arrived ascended Atabegs Bakhtiyari bas-reliefs Behbehán Bekesh Boré buluk chain Chaldea chief crossed curious direction distance district east encampment Fahliyán farsangs figure formed former four farsangs Gebrs Governor ground Hafrek Hasan Ali Mirza head hill horses Iliyats Imam-Zadeh inhabitants inscriptions Isfahan Istakhr Jemshid journey Julfa Kal'eh karavanserai Kashan Kazerún Khan Khogilú King Kúmisheh Kurdistán latter likewise Linji LURISTAN LURISTAN AND ARABISTAN Lutis Mamaseni Merdasht miles Mirza Kúmo Moétemid moun mountains Muhammed Murgab Mussulman Nakshi-Rustam night north-west passed Perse Persepolis Persian Gulf plain Polvar probably province reckoned river road rock ruins Rustám Rustemi Sarila Sasanian sculptures Shah Shapúr Shiráz Shúshter side Sir Robert Kerr six farsangs snow spot spring stone stream Tabriz Takhti Teheran Tezeng tion tomb of Cyrus town tribe valley Vathek Veli-Khan village visited walls whilst Yezde-hást Zend Zoroaster
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Página 127 - 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 128 - 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 102 - A death-like stillness reigned over the mountain and through the air ; the moon dilated on a vast platform the shades of the lofty columns, which reached from the terrace almost to the clouds ; the gloomy watch-towers, whose...
Página 105 - In the midst of this immense hall a vast multitude was incessantly passing, who severally kept their right hands on their hearts, without once regarding any thing around them; they had all the livid paleness of death; their eyes, deep sunk in their sockets, resembled those phosphoric meteors that glimmer by night in places of interment.
Página 107 - His person was that of a young man, whose noble and regular features seemed to have been tarnished by malignant vapours; in his large eyes appeared both pride and despair; his flowing...
Página 109 - ... testified their horror for each other by the most ghastly convulsions, and screams that could not be smothered. All severally plunged themselves into the accursed multitude, there to wander in an eternity of unabating anguish. Such was, and such should be, the punishment of unrestrained passions and atrocious actions...
Página 104 - ... an immense palace, whose walls were embossed with various figures; in front stood forth the colossal forms of four creatures, composed of the leopard and the griffin; and, though but of stone, inspired emotions of terror; near these were distinguished by the...
Página 107 - Creatures of clay, I receive you into mine empire; ye are numbered amongst my adorers; enjoy whatever this palace affords; the treasures of the Preadamite Sultans, their bickering sabres, and those talismans that compel the Dives to open the subterranean expanses of the mountain of Kaf, which communicate with these ; there, insatiable as your curiosity may be, shall you find sufficient...
Página 43 - Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares. 12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.