Travels in Sicily, Greece, and Albania, Volume 2J. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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Acarnania Acheron Agà Albanian Ali Pasha Ali's amongst ancient Antonietti appeared Argyro-Castro arms army arrived Arta attack Avlona beautiful Berat beys called caloyer Captain castron character Charadrus chief church command Constantinople Corfu death Delvinaki Delvino district divan dominions endeavoured enemies Epirus favourite fortress Foto French friends gain Gardiki grand Greece Greek harem head honour Ibrahim Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants Ioannina Ionian Ionian islands island Kiaffa Klissura lake Mahometan Mouchtar Pasha mountains Mustafà observed Palasca palikars Paramithia Parga Parghiotes plain Porte possession Pouqueville Prevesa prisoners procured received republic river rock Romaic ruins Russians Santa Maura scarcely sent seraglio serai Signore Nicolo soon Suli Suliots Tepeleni tion took town troops Turkey Turkish Turks Tzavella village vizir Voïussa whilst wine ἀπὸ δὲ διὰ εἰς καὶ μὲ νὰ τὰ τὰς τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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Page 290 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Page 291 - And lead him near to little, but his last ; But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth, The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth ; Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.
Page 129 - ... of prisoners, whose ransom served to enrich the conquerors. Ali himself killed two horses in his precipitate escape; and when he arrived at his capital, he shut himself up in his harem for several days, where he admitted no one to his presence, except a few of his most confidential friends.
Page 157 - ... neighbouring pastures, dressed himself in his white capote and camise, and concealing himself till the shades of evening had descended, walked out on all fours from his lurking place, and mingling with the herds, entered together with them into the stalls where they were shut up. In the dead of the night he arose silently, opened the doors, unloosed the oxen, and drove them towards a party of his friends who were in waiting to receive them. The Albanians heard the noise, but were so alarmed by...
Page 197 - Parga are Albanian Greeks, extremely tenacious of their freedom, and of the liberty of their small community, and habitually adverse to the dominion of the Turks. They are a spirited and independent people, though at the same time docile and easy of command, when treated liberally and justly; and all the male population are trained to arms, and expert in the use of them.
Page 347 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 163 - Aria, but a party of about one hundred women and children, being cut off from the rest, flew towards a steep precipice at a little distance from the convent; there the innocent babes were thrown over the rocks by their despairing mothers, whilst the women themselves, preferring death to the dishonour that awaited them, joined hand in hand, and raising their minds to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, by songs in honour of their lost country, they whirled round and round in a species of frantic dance,...
Page 154 - I thank you, vizir, for the kind regard yon express towards me, but I beseech you not to send the purses, for I should not know how to count them ; and if I did, believe me, that one single pebble belonging to my country, much less that country itself, would in my eyes appear too great a return for them. Equally vain are the honours you offer to bestow upon me. The honours of a Suliot lie in his arms. With these I hope to immortalize my name and preserve my country.
Page 113 - Ottoman Porte. After a short consultation with his friend, he dismissed him to return and meet the deputies, who waited a few days on the road, and then proceeded straight to loannina. The beys, to whom its contents had been already intimated, advanced as far as the suburbs to meet the firman. It was produced, and drawn out of Its crimson case ; when each reverently applied it to his forehead, in token of submission to its dictates. It was then opened, and to the utter consternation of the assembly,...
Page 128 - Kiaffa and the capital, was at this time so thinly garrisoned as to be unable to intercept the pursuers ; and Suli would have been lost but for an act of female valour which well deserves comparison with that of Telesilla and her Argives. The heroine Mosco...