Lights and Shadows of African History, 第 2 巻Bradbury, Soden & Company, 1844 - 336 ページ |
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... islands , which reared their bosoms amid the sandy desert . Here , perhaps , were drawn those brilliant pictures of the Hesperian Gardens , the Fortunate Islands , the Islands of the Blest , which are painted in such glowing colors ...
... islands , which reared their bosoms amid the sandy desert . Here , perhaps , were drawn those brilliant pictures of the Hesperian Gardens , the Fortunate Islands , the Islands of the Blest , which are painted in such glowing colors ...
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... traveller , as he discovered a new portion of that fertile and beautiful coast , fondly imagined that he had at length of its fabled beauty ; arrived at the long sought - for Islands of the 12 AFRICA AS KNOWN TO THE ANCIENTS .
... traveller , as he discovered a new portion of that fertile and beautiful coast , fondly imagined that he had at length of its fabled beauty ; arrived at the long sought - for Islands of the 12 AFRICA AS KNOWN TO THE ANCIENTS .
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... islands rendered an easy step . The Canaries , having never been passed , nor even ex- plored , continued always to be called the Fortunate Islands , not from any peculiar felicity of soil and cli- mate which they actually possessed ...
... islands rendered an easy step . The Canaries , having never been passed , nor even ex- plored , continued always to be called the Fortunate Islands , not from any peculiar felicity of soil and cli- mate which they actually possessed ...
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... island of Samos . The next attempt was made by a private individual , Eudoxus , a native of Cyzicus , who prosecuted his first voyage of discovery under the patronage of Ptolemy Euergetes . He explored a part of the eastern coast of ...
... island of Samos . The next attempt was made by a private individual , Eudoxus , a native of Cyzicus , who prosecuted his first voyage of discovery under the patronage of Ptolemy Euergetes . He explored a part of the eastern coast of ...
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... island situated in a deep bay , where they founded a colony , and gave it the name of Cerne . They now entered another bay , and , passing along a great extent of coast , found many islands and rivers with great numbers of crocodiles ...
... island situated in a deep bay , where they founded a colony , and gave it the name of Cerne . They now entered another bay , and , passing along a great extent of coast , found many islands and rivers with great numbers of crocodiles ...
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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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37 ページ - 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.
86 ページ - 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?
54 ページ - 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.
37 ページ - 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.
37 ページ - 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...
88 ページ - 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.
230 ページ - 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.
91 ページ - 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.
223 ページ - 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,...
223 ページ - 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...