Thalaba the Destroyer, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Love poetry, English |
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Abdaldar Algiers Allah Almanzor Angels Arabian Arabs arrows art thou Aswad Azarael Azrael Babylon Bagdad beautiful Bedouins beheld birds bitumen body buried burning Caliph called Camel cave cloud colour cried dark death desert Dromedary earth Eblis Euphrates exclaim'd eyes father fear feet fire fruit Genii glory gold hand Hand of Glory Haruth and Maruth hath head heard heart Heaven Hirah Hodeirah horse Houd hour houses Irem Khawla King Koran light LOBABA locusts look'd Lord Mahommed Mare Mecca Moath Mohareb Mosque mountain nest never night o'er Oneiza palace palm Persia Pietro della Valle poison prayer Prophet Pyramid rain rais'd Ring round ruins sand shade Shedad Sorcerer soul spake spell Spirit stone stood taste the pain tent Thalaba thee thing thou hast tower traveller trees Turks voice wind wonderful young youth Zeinab Zohak
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Page 257 - 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. 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...
Page 252 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 3 - How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orb'd glory yonder Moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert-circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! 2.
Page 128 - And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Page 203 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 134 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Page 215 - They retired from us with a wind at south-east, leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient in it was fear, with a considerable deal of wonder and astonishment.
Page 216 - Halboub, only they seemed to be more in number and less in size. They came several times in a direction close upon us, that is, I believe, within less than two miles.
Page 198 - If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down : for that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin : wherein shall he sleep ? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Page 149 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...