Eastern countriesJohn C. Winston Company, 1910 |
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Acropolis afterward altar Amenhotep III ancient city Arabs Asia Minor Assiout Athens Baalbek beautiful became Bosporus buildings built Cairo called canal capital captured caravan castle century B. C. chapel chief Christian church coast columns Constantinople cross Crusaders Damascus desert destroyed dynasty early eastern eastward Egypt Egyptian elevated enclosing entrance excavated extending famous farther feet high feet long flows gate Golden Horn Grecian Greece Greek Gulf harbor hill Holy hundred feet inscriptions island Jerusalem Jordan Karnak king lake land Mediterranean miles Mohammed Moslem mosque Mount mountain mummy Nile northern northward originally Osiris palace Persians pharaohs plain port priests Ptolemies pyramids Rameses relics remains ridge rising river rock Roman route ruins sacred sand Seti shore side slope southern southward Sphynx statue stone structure sultan summit Syria temple Thebes Thothmes thousand tion tomb towers town Turkish Turks valley village Wady Halfa walls western westward
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Page 4 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 454 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 266 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 492 - Thou, and thou alone, must hear. Though my scarred and veteran legions Bear their eagles high no more, And my wrecked and scattered galleys Strew dark Actium's fatal shore, Though no glittering guards surround...
Page 93 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 358 - From the Desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
Page 293 - MOTHER ! whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied; Woman ! above all women glorified, Our tainted nature's solitary boast; Purer than foam on central ocean tost; Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast; Thy Image falls to earth.
Page 13 - Phorcys, the ancient one of the sea, and thereby are two headlands of sheer cliff, which slope to the sea on the haven's side and break the mighty wave that ill winds roll without, but within, the decked ships ride unmoored when once they have reached the place of anchorage.