Lights and Shadows of African History, Том 2Bradbury, Soden & Company, 1844 - Всего страниц: 336 |
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Abyssinia adventure Africa Algiers ancient animals Antony appeared Arabs arms army arrived Ashantee Barbary became boat body Boo Khaloom called camels canoe Cape Captain captivity carried Carthage Carthaginians chief Christian Clapperton Cleopatra coast crew death desert discovery Dragut dreadful early Egypt Egyptians emperor English escape European expedition Fezzan fleet formed French Gama Gambia gave gold horse hundred immediately India inhabitants interior island king land length Lisbon Madagascar Mehemet Ali Mequinez miles Mogadore monarch Moorish Moors Morocco mountains narrative natives negroes Niger night Numidia Octavius Park party passed person Portuguese present Prester John prince proceeded reached received returned Riley river rock Roman round sail sand Saracens seemed Senegal sent ships shore Sidi Hamet Sierra Leone sight slaves soon storm suffered Sultan Timbuctoo tion tomb took town trade travellers trees Tripoli vessel village voyage whole
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Стр. 37 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Стр. 86 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib ? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Стр. 54 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Стр. 37 - Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature.
Стр. 37 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Стр. 88 - Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Стр. 230 - I shall only observe that no event which took place during the journey, ever threw the smallest gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr. Anderson in the grave. I then felt myself, as if left a second time lonely and friendless amidst the wilds of Africa.
Стр. 91 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins" of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Стр. 223 - I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image? — surely not ! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair. I started up, and, disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled forward,...
Стр. 223 - I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for, though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves and capsules without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and suffering of creatures...