The Quarterly Review, Volumen16John Murray, 1817 |
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... carried off one half of its inhabitants , who , before this dreadful visitation , had dwindled down to about 12,000 souls . New Alexandria , ' says Norden , may justly be looked on as a poor orphan who has no other inheritance but the ...
... carried off one half of its inhabitants , who , before this dreadful visitation , had dwindled down to about 12,000 souls . New Alexandria , ' says Norden , may justly be looked on as a poor orphan who has no other inheritance but the ...
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... o'clock , and every person is required to carry a light after it is dark , -a regulation very common in eastern cities , A 3 and and one which might be adopted with advantage in some 1816 . Legh's Journey in Egypt and Nubia .
... o'clock , and every person is required to carry a light after it is dark , -a regulation very common in eastern cities , A 3 and and one which might be adopted with advantage in some 1816 . Legh's Journey in Egypt and Nubia .
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... carried on by a set of fellows called Jelabs , or slave - merchants , who , in the course of the long journey , seize upon those periods of distress arising from a scarcity of water or provisions , to perform the operation of ...
... carried on by a set of fellows called Jelabs , or slave - merchants , who , in the course of the long journey , seize upon those periods of distress arising from a scarcity of water or provisions , to perform the operation of ...
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... carried away by the French . By his own account , he has drawn and described objects seen only in galloping past them , and at the best labouring under the horror of a hostile visit from the Arabs or the Mamelukes . At Siout , which has ...
... carried away by the French . By his own account , he has drawn and described objects seen only in galloping past them , and at the best labouring under the horror of a hostile visit from the Arabs or the Mamelukes . At Siout , which has ...
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... carry away , and mutilating their daughters to save them from the violence of the victors . ' We cannot be surprized , therefore , after what we have just seen , that the natives of Philæ should appear to our travellers less civilized ...
... carry away , and mutilating their daughters to save them from the violence of the victors . ' We cannot be surprized , therefore , after what we have just seen , that the natives of Philæ should appear to our travellers less civilized ...
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Página 198 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
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Página 195 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Página 86 - Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me In dreadful secrecy impart they did, And I with them the third night kept the watch ; Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, Form of the thing, each word made true and good, The apparition comes.
Página 195 - Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell: He rush'd into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
Página 202 - It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness — without a place; There were no stars — no earth — no time — No check — no change — no good — no crime — But silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless...
Página 184 - Demons in act, but gods at least in face, In Conrad's form seems little to admire, Though his dark eyebrow shades a glance of fire : Robust but not Herculean — to the sight No giant frame sets forth his common height ; Yet, in the whole, who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men ; They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but why they cannot guess.