Travels in Greece and Turkey: Being the Second Part of Excursions in the Mediterranean, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1836 |
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Page 24 - They are a species of the Alcyon voyageur, and are never observed to rest, but keep constantly flying up and down the stream at about six inches from the surface of the water. He wanders, joyless and alone, And weary as that bird of Thrace, Whose pinion knows no resting-place. Moore. On the
Page 75 - Fis a grand sight, from off " the Giant's grave" To watch the progress of those rolling seas Between the Bosphorus, as they lash and lave Europe and Asia Byron is, however, wrong in saying that the Symplegades are to be seen from the Giant's Mountain, as such is not the case. Proceeding on, we came to a remarkably pretty and picturesque Turkish burial-ground, embosomed in a plantation of oak trees. One
Page 295 - soundest and most extensive erudition."—Metropolitan, IV. CAPTAIN GLASCOCK'S NEW WORK. In 2 vols, post Svo. with Engravings, THE NAVAL SERVICE; OR, OFFICERS' MANUAL FOR EVERY GRADE IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS.
Page 125 - the idea of Deity, and partakes more of the character of worship than the unmeaning ceremonials of the Romish church. In Spain the two systems came fairly into opposition. But enough of this, for I had designed only a slight sketch of Constantinople—not an essay