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 39
... renders the site of Babylon " a naked and hideous waste . " The most remarkable of the relics of the great city lie at a short distance inland from the left bank of the river ; and here , according to Chesney , three of its four great ...
... renders the site of Babylon " a naked and hideous waste . " The most remarkable of the relics of the great city lie at a short distance inland from the left bank of the river ; and here , according to Chesney , three of its four great ...
Side 58
... rendered all the more impressive by its position in the centre of a vast plain , with nothing to break the view . The prin- cipal mound , as we have already stated , rises about one hundred and fifty feet above the plain in the shape of ...
... rendered all the more impressive by its position in the centre of a vast plain , with nothing to break the view . The prin- cipal mound , as we have already stated , rises about one hundred and fifty feet above the plain in the shape of ...
Side 74
... rendered easy ; and the land , being plentifully watered , yields abundant crops , while the date - palm flourishes vigorously , and affords a welcome shade . The inundation of the Euphrates , caused by the melting of the mountain ...
... rendered easy ; and the land , being plentifully watered , yields abundant crops , while the date - palm flourishes vigorously , and affords a welcome shade . The inundation of the Euphrates , caused by the melting of the mountain ...
Side 76
... rendered wearisome by the monotony of the landscape , and strayed to some little distance from his party , which suggested to the joke - loving Arabs the idea of a little amuse- ment . A couple of Arabs , almost naked , and ap- parently ...
... rendered wearisome by the monotony of the landscape , and strayed to some little distance from his party , which suggested to the joke - loving Arabs the idea of a little amuse- ment . A couple of Arabs , almost naked , and ap- parently ...
Side 92
... render assistance when needed . While they moved on thus cautiously , Chesney suddenly saw an unexpected enemy in front of them ; a cobra - capella just rising on its tail , and preparing to strike Ainsworth with its fangs . would ...
... render assistance when needed . While they moved on thus cautiously , Chesney suddenly saw an unexpected enemy in front of them ; a cobra - capella just rising on its tail , and preparing to strike Ainsworth with its fangs . would ...
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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
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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...