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... thought severs the heart - strings of the opulent strangers . But are their resources rivers , whose sands are gold ? -And the soft - eyed Arab boy is despatched for fresh coffee . We wear away the day in this delightful traffic . It ...
... thought severs the heart - strings of the opulent strangers . But are their resources rivers , whose sands are gold ? -And the soft - eyed Arab boy is despatched for fresh coffee . We wear away the day in this delightful traffic . It ...
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... thought to alter the direction of my beast by pulling the halter . But I gathered in its whole length , hand over hand , and only drew the long neck quite round , so that the great stupid head was almost between my knees , and the ...
... thought to alter the direction of my beast by pulling the halter . But I gathered in its whole length , hand over hand , and only drew the long neck quite round , so that the great stupid head was almost between my knees , and the ...
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... , they asked what was that desert of water . A Bedoueen after a foray upon a caravan , discovered among his booty several bags of fine pearls . He thought them Dourra , a kind of grain . But as AMONG THE BEDOUEEN . 59.
... , they asked what was that desert of water . A Bedoueen after a foray upon a caravan , discovered among his booty several bags of fine pearls . He thought them Dourra , a kind of grain . But as AMONG THE BEDOUEEN . 59.
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... thought that our infidel presences cum- bered the earth , and soiled by contact his own Muslim orthodoxy . He was therefore perpetually flinging him- self upon his little donkey and shambling toward the horizon , with a sniff of disgust ...
... thought that our infidel presences cum- bered the earth , and soiled by contact his own Muslim orthodoxy . He was therefore perpetually flinging him- self upon his little donkey and shambling toward the horizon , with a sniff of disgust ...
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... thought , and Raphael painted , and to whom the old Ishmael's country , its faith and its history , were but incidents in the luxury of Life . Yet Ishmael maintained the balance well , and never relaxed his sniffing contempt for the ...
... thought , and Raphael painted , and to whom the old Ishmael's country , its faith and its history , were but incidents in the luxury of Life . Yet Ishmael maintained the balance well , and never relaxed his sniffing contempt for the ...
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75 cents Arabian Arabs Armenian Artoosh Baalbec bazaar beautiful Bedoueen blue cafés Cairo camels caravan chibouque Christian church Commander court Damascus dark Dead Sea desert desolation dome donkey door dream East Eastern Egypt ELIAS LOOMIS eyes faith fancy feel flashing flowers forever gardens gate genius Golden Sleeve grace green heart hills holy horizon horses Howadji hushed imagination JACOB ABBOTT Jerusalem Khadra land landscape Lebanon Leisurlie look luxury MacWhirter marble Mecca melancholy minarets mind Mohammad Alee morning mosque Mount Mount of Olives mountains Muezzin musing Muslin Nazareth night odor olive oriental Pacha Palestine palms passed paused picturesque pilgrims plain poet Pomegranate Prophet remember rode romance Rome rose sand Saracens shadow Shekh sherbet Shiraz silence singing smile smoke splendor suddenly sweet Syrian Täib temple tent thought tomb trees twilight vague valley vols walls warm wind wonder
Popular passages
Page 211 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 9 - For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow. Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure ; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure.
Page 181 - And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Page 159 - Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Page 251 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Page 264 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 62 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Page 153 - For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord) make his paths straight.