Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...G.P. Putnam, 1862 |
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Page xi
... Khan Mezar- luk - Morning among the Mountains - The Gorge of the Cydnus - The Crag of the Fortress - The Cilician Gate - Deserted Forts - A Sublime Landscape - The Gorge of the Sihoon - The Second Gate - Camp in the Defile - Sunrise ...
... Khan Mezar- luk - Morning among the Mountains - The Gorge of the Cydnus - The Crag of the Fortress - The Cilician Gate - Deserted Forts - A Sublime Landscape - The Gorge of the Sihoon - The Second Gate - Camp in the Defile - Sunrise ...
Page xii
... Khan - An Unpleasant Discovery - Kiutahya - The Citadel - Panorama from the Walls - The Gorge of the Mountains - Camp in a Meadow The Valley of the Rhyndacus - Chavdür - The Ruins of Ezani - The Acro- polis and Temple -- The Theatre and ...
... Khan - An Unpleasant Discovery - Kiutahya - The Citadel - Panorama from the Walls - The Gorge of the Mountains - Camp in a Meadow The Valley of the Rhyndacus - Chavdür - The Ruins of Ezani - The Acro- polis and Temple -- The Theatre and ...
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... khan , and breakfasted under a magnificent olive tree , while two boys tended our horses to see that they ate only the edges of the wheat field . Below the house were two large cypresses , and on a little PANORAMA OF THE BAY OF ACRE ...
... khan , and breakfasted under a magnificent olive tree , while two boys tended our horses to see that they ate only the edges of the wheat field . Below the house were two large cypresses , and on a little PANORAMA OF THE BAY OF ACRE ...
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Bayard Taylor. RETURN TO JERUSALEM . 71 reached the ruins of a large khan or hostlery , under one of the peaks , which François stated to be the veritable " high moun- tain " whence the Devil pointed out all the kingdoms of the earth ...
Bayard Taylor. RETURN TO JERUSALEM . 71 reached the ruins of a large khan or hostlery , under one of the peaks , which François stated to be the veritable " high moun- tain " whence the Devil pointed out all the kingdoms of the earth ...
Page 90
... khan . The place takes its name from a fountain of excellent water , beside which we found our tents already pitched . In the evening , two Englishmen , an ancient Mentor , with a wild young Telemachus in charge , arrived , and camped ...
... khan . The place takes its name from a fountain of excellent water , beside which we found our tents already pitched . In the evening , two Englishmen , an ancient Mentor , with a wild young Telemachus in charge , arrived , and camped ...
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Common terms and phrases
Adana Aleppo ancient Anti-Lebanon appearance Arabic arches Baalbec bath bazaars beautiful blue Brousa built Christian clouds coffee Constantinople covered crossed Dagh Damascus dark Dervishes descended Desert distant dome entered eyes face feet forests François gardens gate golden Golden Horn gorge grand Greek green groves HASHEESH height hills horses houses hundred Jaffa Jerusalem journey Karamania khan land leave Lebanon light looked marble miles minarets Moorish morning Moslem mosque Mount Mount of Olives mountains night olive orchards Oriental palace Pasha passed piastres pillars pine pipe plain Quarantine reached Rhyndacus rich ridge river road rock rode roof rose ruins Saracenic Sea of Marmora Seville shade Shekh shore side slope smoke stone stony stream streets Sultan summit Syrian tain temple tent tombs took tower town travellers trees Turcoman Turkish Turks valley village walls wild wind
Popular passages
Page 72 - Holies—The Sacred Localities—Visions of Christ—The Mosque of Omar—The Holy Man of Timbuctoo—Preparations for Departure. " Cut off thy hair, 0 Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation in high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath."—
Page 88 - Blest land of Judea! thrice hallowed of song, Where the holiest of memories pilgrim-like throng: In the shade of thy palms, by the shores of thy sea, On the hills of thy beauty, my heart is with thee !
Page 120 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel!"—2 KINGS, v. 12.
Page 312 - Distant View of Constantinople—We enter the Golden Horn. "And we glode fast o'er a pellucid plain Of waters, azure with the noontide ray. Ethereal mountains shone around—a fane Stood in the midst, beyond green isles which lay On the blue, sunny deep, resplendent far away.
Page 60 - Mount of Temptation—Return to Jerusalem. " And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish and the plain shall be destroyed, as the Lord hath spoken,"—
Page 300 - Showery Ride—The Plain of Brousa—The Structure of Olym pus—We reach Brousa—The Tent is Furled. " I looked yet farther and higher, and saw in the heavens a silvery cloud that stood fast, and still against the breeze ; * * * * and so it was as a sign and a testimony— almost as a call from the
Page 226 - Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city."—ACTS, xxi. 89.
Page 363 - Suspected List—The Streets of Catania—Biography of St. Agatha—The Illuminations —The Procession of the Veil—The Biscari Palace—The Antiquities of Catania—The Convent of St. Nicola. " The morn is full of holiday, loud bells With rival clamors ring from every spire; Cunningly-stationed music dies and swells In echoing places ; when the winds respire, Light flags stream out like gauzy tongues of fire."—KEATS. CATANIA, Sicily, Friday,
Page 343 - a Firman—The Seraglio—The Library—The Ancient Throne-Room—Admittance to St. Sophia—Magnificence of the Interior-—The Marvellous Dome—The Mosque of Sultan Achmed—The Sulemanye—Great Conflagrations—Political Meaning of the Fires—Turkish Progress—Decay of the Ottoman Power. " Is that indeed Sophia's far-famed dome. Where first the Faith was led in triumph home, Like some high bride, with banner and bright sign, And melody, and flowers
Page 77 - God is great: there is no God but God, and Mohammed is His Prophet! Let us prostrate ourselves before Him : and to Him alone be the glory!" Jerusalem, internally, gives no impression but that of filth, ruin, poverty, and degradation. There are two or