Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research, with More Than Two Hundred Illustrations and a MapMacmillan, 1906 - 471 Seiten |
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... looked like the scar of some Titan wound upon its sullen face . The lonely scene grew in impressive grandeur as the day wore on . The old myth of Prometheus rose before my imagination . Far in the distance I could picture the desolate ...
... looked like the scar of some Titan wound upon its sullen face . The lonely scene grew in impressive grandeur as the day wore on . The old myth of Prometheus rose before my imagination . Far in the distance I could picture the desolate ...
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... looked a little more modern because of the long rifle with which they stood guard over their flocks . Most of them had the shambling gait of the East and the Ori- ental fashion of squatting , which was particularly noticeable around the ...
... looked a little more modern because of the long rifle with which they stood guard over their flocks . Most of them had the shambling gait of the East and the Ori- ental fashion of squatting , which was particularly noticeable around the ...
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... looked like a lake , although the room on each side of the entrance was habitable . I took the one on the right , as the left was already occupied by rough natives who wore heavy sheepskin caps and were armed with daggers and long guns ...
... looked like a lake , although the room on each side of the entrance was habitable . I took the one on the right , as the left was already occupied by rough natives who wore heavy sheepskin caps and were armed with daggers and long guns ...
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... looked like that of a giant . I grasped instinctively for my revolver , but a salutation came from the muffled lips , and I saw that the newcomer had no malicious intent . He was accompanied by an elderly woman , robed partly in black ...
... looked like that of a giant . I grasped instinctively for my revolver , but a salutation came from the muffled lips , and I saw that the newcomer had no malicious intent . He was accompanied by an elderly woman , robed partly in black ...
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... looked like a sea of gigantic billows raised by some Titan storm that had torn up its surface . And snow was everywhere . The depth of the snow made progress very slow , and once our vehicle became hopelessly stuck in a huge drift , and ...
... looked like a sea of gigantic billows raised by some Titan storm that had torn up its surface . And snow was everywhere . The depth of the snow made progress very slow , and once our vehicle became hopelessly stuck in a huge drift , and ...
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Achæmenian ancient antiquity Arab arch Armenian Artaxerxes Auramazda Avesta bas-reliefs bazaars Bisitun Bombay building called caravan caravansarai carved century citadel columns cuneiform Curzon Cyrus dakhmah Darius Dieulafoy Ecbatana farsakhs feet figure fire fire-temple Flandin and Coste Gabar garden Geog Goeje Grundr Hamadan height hills horses hundred Ibn Haukal inscription of Darius Iran Isfahan Istakhr journey Julfa Justi Kangavar Ker Porter Kermanshah Khosru king lake ledge letters looks Magian Masudi miles Mohammedan mosque Mount mountain Naksh-i Rustam Namah natives Pahlavi palace Parsis Parthian Persepolis Philol photograph plain priest Rawlinson regarding royal ruins Sasanian sculptures Shah Shiraz Shirin Shiz shrine side Spiegel stone tablets Tabriz Tak-i Bostan Takht-i Suleiman Teheran temple Tiflis tion tomb tower town Travels Urumiah vaulted village Voyage en Perse walls Weissbach and Bang word Xerxes Yakut Yezd Yezidis Zoroaster Zoroaster's Zoroastrian
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Seite 410 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Seite 293 - He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world's youth ; through the long burning day Gazed on those speechless shapes ; nor, when the moon Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades, Suspended...
Seite 227 - Which crowd each nook of that majestic place. The piles give way, the rocky peaks divide, The stream comes gushing on — a foaming tide! A mighty work, for ages to remain, The token of his passion and his pain. As flows the milky flood from Allah's throne, Rushes the torrent from the yielding stone; And sculptured there, amazed, stern Khosru stands, And sees, with frowns, obeyed his harsh commands: While she, the fair beloved, with being rife, Awakes the glowing marble into life.
Seite 312 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Seite 122 - We search out dead men's words, and works of dead men's hands ; We shut our eyes, and muse How our own minds are made...
Seite 103 - Zoradascht,1 and brought with them offerings : namely, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worshipped him, and offered to him their gifts. 2 Then the Lady Mary took one of his swaddling...
Seite 152 - ... hewn three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits: and set the towers thereof upon the gates of it, an hundred cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the foundation threescore cubits: and he made the gates thereof, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth of them was forty cubits, for the going forth of his mighty armies, and for the setting in array of his footmen...
Seite 9 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Seite 332 - DISTICHS. I've heard that once a man of high degree From a wolf's teeth and claws a lamb set free. That night its throat he severed with a knife. When thus complained the lamb's departing life, "Thou from the wolf didst save me then, but now, Too plainly I perceive the wolf art thou.
Seite 44 - Merciful. The President of the United States of North America, and his Majesty as exalted as the Planet Saturn; the Sovereign to whom the Sun serves as a standard; whose splendor and magnificence are equal to that of the Skies; the Sublime Sovereign, the Monarch whose armies are as numerous as the Stars; whose greatness calls to mind that of Jeinshid; whose magnificence equals that of Darius; the Heir of the Crown and Throne of the Kayanians; the Sublime Emperor of all Persia...