The Euphrates and the Tigris: A Narrative of Discovery and Adventure : with a Description of the Ruins of Babylon and NinevehT. Nelson & Sons, 1879 - 206 sider |
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Side 16
... immense buildings , cemented by the bitumen which from that same early date came floating down the river from the springs in its upper course . ' But if it owed much to its geographical situation , it owed more to the magnificent ...
... immense buildings , cemented by the bitumen which from that same early date came floating down the river from the springs in its upper course . ' But if it owed much to its geographical situation , it owed more to the magnificent ...
Side 31
... immense strength of its fortifications , and the vast resources it con- tained , revelled in arrogant security , laughed at the dangers which threatened him , and did not shrink from insulting the God of heaven . How long the defence ...
... immense strength of its fortifications , and the vast resources it con- tained , revelled in arrogant security , laughed at the dangers which threatened him , and did not shrink from insulting the God of heaven . How long the defence ...
Side 34
... immense extent that considerable portions of it might well be held by the conquerors before any alarm could reach the palace ; especially as the clash of battle would be unheard amid the far- END OF THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE . 35 So it came.
... immense extent that considerable portions of it might well be held by the conquerors before any alarm could reach the palace ; especially as the clash of battle would be unheard amid the far- END OF THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE . 35 So it came.
Side 47
... immense yellow desert , covered with heaps of ruins , and traversed in all directions by dried - up canals ; a few poor villages inhabited by fellahs , and scattered along the river - bank ; here and there some clusters of black tents ...
... immense yellow desert , covered with heaps of ruins , and traversed in all directions by dried - up canals ; a few poor villages inhabited by fellahs , and scattered along the river - bank ; here and there some clusters of black tents ...
Side 51
... immense quarry of bricks . Cuneiform inscriptions abound here , but none of much interest have been dis- covered . The following Mohammedan legend is attached to Babel . The Creator sent thither on a mission two of his purest angels ...
... immense quarry of bricks . Cuneiform inscriptions abound here , but none of much interest have been dis- covered . The following Mohammedan legend is attached to Babel . The Creator sent thither on a mission two of his purest angels ...
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afterwards ancient Arabs Asia Asiatic Assyrian Babel Babylonian Bagdad bank bas-reliefs beasts Belshazzar Berosus Birs Nimrud bitumen Borsippa bricks bridge of boats canals capital caravan carried centuries Chaldean character Colonel Chesney colossal colours covered Ctesiphon Cyrus desert Diarbekir dynasty earth east Egypt Egyptian empire Euphrates excavations expedition feet glory gods Greek Hanging Gardens heaven Herodotus Hillah hundred immense inhabited inscriptions Izdubar Kasr khalif Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurnah Lamlum Layard legends lion liver be satisfied memorials ment Mesopotamia Mighty Babylon miles minaret mistress lady modern Mohammedan monarch monuments mosques Mosul mound mountains Mujellebéh Nabonidus Nebuchadnezzar Nimrud Nineveh Ninevite noble numerous ornaments palace passed Persian Gulf Phoenicia plain reign rendered river royal ruins of Babylon Sardanapalus says scene scenery sculptures Semiramis side steamers stream summit Syria Tekrit Temple of Bel thousand thy heart rejoice thy liver Tiglath-Pileser Tigris tion tomb tower town traveller trees vessels villages walls
Populære avsnitt
Side 36 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Side 32 - In that same hour and hall, The fingers of a hand Came forth against the wall, And wrote as if on sand : The fingers of a man ; — A solitary hand Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand.
Side 35 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
Side 35 - A captive in the land, A stranger and a youth, He heard the King's command, He saw that writing's truth. The lamps around were bright, The prophecy in view; He read it on that night, — The morrow proved it true. " Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom...
Side 15 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Side 122 - WHEN the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy, The tide of time flow'd back with me, The forward-flowing tide of time ; And many a sheeny summer-morn, Adown the Tigris I was borne, By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, High-walled gardens green and old ; True Mussulman was I and sworn, For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Side 20 - And every ship-master, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, and cried, when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying ; What city is like unto this great city...
Side 160 - The luxury and civilization of a mighty nation had given place to the wretchedness and ignorance of a few half-barbarous tribes. The wealth of temples, and the riches of great cities, had been succeeded by ruins and shapeless heaps of earth. Above the spacious hall in which they stood, the plough had passed and the corn now waved. Egypt has monuments no less ancient and no less wonderful ; but they have stood forth for ages to testify her early power and renown...
Side 20 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk...
Side 36 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, And dragons...