The Young Pilgrim, Or, Alfred Campbell's Return to the East: And His Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabia Petraea, &c. &cOrville A. Roorbach, 1828 - 211 עמודים |
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Abou Raschid Aleppo Alfred Ali Pacha Aliakès alike ancient antiquity appeared Arabian Arabs arrived beautiful Bucharest Cairo camels camp Cataracts ceremony character Christian church Clayfield colour conduct Constantinople Convent Corfu Damietta Dead Sea dear defile delight Dendera desert desire dragoman Egypt entered extremely father feet Grand Signior Greek Hebron honour horses hundred inhabitants inscription Ionian island Janissaries Jerusalem journey Kerek labour land magnificent manner Mecca Mosque Mount Hor Mount Sinai mountain natives night object old Yousouf once Pacha party passed Petra piastres pleasure present proceeded Pub by Orville Pyramid ravine remarked resembled rock ruins Sahlem scene seen SERRAIL servant Sheikh SHEIKH YOUSOUF Shobek side soon spirits spot statues stone strangers surrounded temple tents Thebes tion TOMB OF AARON town Turkish Turks valley village Vizier Wady Moussa whilst whole young friends Young Pilgrim young travellers
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עמוד 9 - Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And every stream in heavenly numbers flows.
עמוד 140 - We followed this sort of half-subterranean passage for the space of nearly two miles, the sides increasing in height as the path continually descended, while the tops of the precipices retained their former level. Where they are at the highest, a beam of stronger light breaks in at the close of the dark perspective, and opens to view, half seen at first through the tall, narrow opening, columns, statues, and cornices of a light and finished taste, as if fresh from the chisel, without the tints or...
עמוד 142 - ... them, are so perfect that it may be doubted whether any work of the ancients, excepting perhaps some on the banks of the Nile, have come down to our time so little injured by the lapse of ages. There is, in fact, scarcely a building of forty years' standing in England so well preserved in the greater part of its architectural decorations.
עמוד 141 - We know not with what to compare this scene: perhaps, there is nothing in the world that resembles it. Only a portion of a very extensive architectural elevation is seen at first; but it has been so contrived, that a statue with expanded wings, perhaps of Victory, just fills the centre of the aperture in front, which being closed below by the sides of the rock folding over each other, gives to the figure the appearance of being suspended in the air at a considerable height ; the ruggedness of the...
עמוד 144 - This pass conducts to the theatre, and here the ruins of the city burst on the view in their full grandeur, shut in on the opposite side by barren craggy precipices, from which numerous ravines and valleys, like those we had passed, branch out in all directions.
עמוד 142 - The taste is not exactly to be commended ; but many of the details and ornaments, and the size and proportion of the great doorway especially, to which there are five steps of ascent from the portico, are very noble. No part...
עמוד 133 - Immediately over this front is another of almost equal extent, but so wholly distinct from it, that even the centres do not correspond. The door-way has the same ornaments. The rest of the body of the design is no more than a plain front, without any other decoration than a single moulding. Upon this are set in a recess four tall and taper pyramids. Their effect is singular and surprising, but combining too little with the rest of 'the elevation to be good. Our attention...
עמוד 142 - ... both sides into an open area of a moderate size, whose sides are by nature inaccessible, and present the same a,wful and romantic features as the avenues which lead to it : this opening gives admission to a great body of light from the eastward. The position is one of the most beautiful that could be imagined for the front of a great temple, the richness and exquisite finish of whose decorations offers a most remarkable contrast to the savage scenery which surrounds it.
עמוד 138 - ... at last a continued street of tombs, beyond which the rocks, gradually approaching each other, seemed all at once to close without any outlet. There is, however, one frightful chasm for the passage of the stream, which furnishes, as it did anciently, the only avenue to Petra on this side [the eastern]. It is impossible...
עמוד 141 - ... the sculpture to the highest advantage. The rest of the design opened gradually as we advanced, till the narrow defile, which had continued thus far without any increase of breadth, spreads on both sides into an open area of a moderate size, whose sides are by nature inaccessible, and present the same awful and romantic features as the avenues which lead to it : this opening gives admission to a great body of light from the eastward. The position is one of the most beautiful that could be imagined...