Cairo, Sketches of Its History, Monuments, and Social LifeJ.S. Virtue & Company, 1898 - 334 pagina's |
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Abydos Ahmad Amir Amîrs ancient Arab Art arabesques Arabian artists Asyût Azhar Bâb bazar beautiful Beybars Beysary building built Cairene called canal carved chased Christian Citadel coloured Coptic church Copts corvée court Damascus decoration dirhems dome doors Eastern Cemetery Edh-Dhahir Egypt Egyptian El-'Adil El-Ashraf El-Hâkim El-Makrîzy El-Mansur En-Nasir English Es-Salih European Fâtimy Fustât gates gold hand harîm Hasaneyn hundred Ibn-Tûlûn inlaid inscription Islâm Isma'il Kâït Bey Kalaûn Khalif Khedive King Kipchak Korân Kufic Lâgîn lamps land Lord Mamlûk Mamlûk Sultans Mekka Memphis minaret Mohammad Mohammed Aly Mohammedan monuments Môsil mosque Mosque of Amr Muslim niche Nile noble Old Cairo ornament palace prayers princes Prophet Pyramids reign religion restored round ruins rulers Saladin Saracenic Saracenic art seen Seyf-ed-din side silver slaves South Kensington Museum specimens stands street style Sultan Sultan Hasan Syria temples Thebes thirteenth century thousand throne tomb tomb-mosque Turkish walls
Populaire passages
Pagina 275 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Pagina 181 - With half-dropt eyelid still, Beneath a heaven dark and holy, To watch the long bright river drawing slowly His waters from the purple hill — To hear the dewy echoes calling From cave to cave thro...
Pagina 32 - Amr, therefore, wrote to the Khalee'feh, to inform him of what he had done, and of the calamity with which Egypt was, in consequence, threatened. 'Oma'r returned a brief answer, expressing his approbation of 'Amr's conduct, and desiring him, upon the receipt of the letter, to throw a note, which it enclosed, into the Nile. The purport of this note was as follows. — " From 'Abd Al'lah 'Om'ar, Prince of the Faithful, to the Nile of Egypt.
Pagina 74 - ... merciless to their enemies, tyrannous to their subjects, yet delighting in the delicate refinements which art could afford them in their home life...
Pagina 146 - Source of being! if a mistress thou should seek, Then, I pray thee, let thy loved one be a Greek. Unto her the fancies of the joyous bend, For there's leave to woo the Grecian girl, my friend. Caskets of coquetry are the Grecian maids, And their grace the rest of womankind degrades. What that slender waist so delicate and slight! What those gentle words the sweet tongue doth indite! What those blandishments, that heart-attracting talk! What that elegance, that heart-attracting walk! What that figure,...
Pagina 196 - Power He conceives the Knowledge that directs it to right ends. God is the Wise, the Just, the True, the Swift in reckoning, who knoweth every ant's weight of good and of ill that each man hath done, and who suffereth not the reward of the faithful to perish.
Pagina 116 - Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp.
Pagina 231 - Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
Pagina 72 - In this flowering time of Saracenic art, a real interest belongs to the life and social condition of the people who made and encouraged the finest productions of the Oriental artist. History can show few more startling contrasts than that offered by the spectacle of a band of disorderly soldiers, to all appearance barbarians, prone to shed blood, merciless to their enemies, tyrannous to their subjects, yet...
Pagina 28 - Therein my soul accomplished its delight, And life was fresher than the green young grass. There rain-drops trickle through the warm still air, The cloud-born firstlings of the summer skies ; Full oft I stroll in early morning there When, like a pearl upon a bosom fair, The glistening dewdrop on the sapling lies. There the young flowerets with sweet perfume blow, There feathery palms their pendent clusters hold, Like foxes' brushes waving to and fro ; There every evening comes the after-glow, Tipping...