The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836, 第 2 巻H. Colburn, 1837 |
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Allah amid amused apartment appearance araba Armenian arms beauty beneath beside Bosphorus Bouroum bride bright Broussa brow Buyuk Hanoum caïque caïquejhes carriage ceremony channel chibouk Circassian coloured Conjefèm Hanoum Constantinople court crimson cushions dark Dervishes Devlehäi Dolma Dragoman European eyes fair father favour feeling fell female flowers flung fortress Frank garden Georgian Giaours gilded glittering gold graceful Greek guard half hand harem head heart honour horses hour husband Imperial Imperial Guard individual instant Janissaries kiosk lattices looked marble Mashallah ment Minister mosque mother mountains Mustapha never noble once Osmanli Palace party Pasha passed piastres Princess Reiss Effendi Salemliek saloon scarcely scene seated Seraï Seraskier sherbet shore silk slaves smile sofa Stamboul stood Sublime Porte suffered Sultan sweet Tahir Pasha terrace tower trees turban Turkey Turkish Turkish ladies Turks valley whole wife wild woman women yashmac young
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461 ページ - Hunting the hart in forest green, With bended bow and bloodhound free, For that's the life is meet for me. I hate to learn the ebb of time, From yon dull steeple's drowsy chime, Or mark it as the sunbeams crawl, Inch after inch, along the wall. The lark was wont my matins...
461 ページ - My hawk is tired of perch and hood, My idle greyhound loathes his food, My horse is weary of his stall, And I am sick of captive thrall. I wish I were as I have been, Hunting the hart in forest green, With bended bow and bloodhound free, For that's the life is meet for me.
335 ページ - ... besought that every empty tank might overflow, and every goblet be filled. The spectacle was a very striking one ; and it was followed by the observance of another yet more touching. At dusk the village children, walking two and two, and each carrying a bunch of wild flowers, drew near the cistern in their turn, and Sang, to one of the thrilling melodies of the country, a hymn
362 ページ - It is impossible to express the contemptuous hatred in which the Osmanlis hold the Jewish people; and the veriest Turkish urchin who may encounter one of the fallen nation on his path, has his meed of insult to add to the degradation of the outcast and wandering race of Israel.
361 ページ - Where they are considered rather as a link between animals and human beings, than as men possessed of the same attributes, warmed by the same sun, chilled by the same breeze, subject to the same feelings, and impulses, and joys, and sorrows, as their fellow mortals. There is a subdued and spiritless expression about the Eastern Jew, of which the comparatively tolerant European can picture to himself no possible idea until he has looked upon it. The Israelite of Europe has a peculiar physiognomy ;...
381 ページ - ... kindness," the Ottoman Empire, in as far as the Turks themselves are concerned, would soon be a waste. There can, I think, be no doubt that the life of cold, monotonous, heart-shutting ceremony led by the Armenians among themselves, has been in a great degree the cause of the stolidity of character with which I have elsewhere reproached them. It would, perhaps, be difficult to find a finer race of men in the world...
246 ページ - ... venders of mohalibe and sekel (or sweetmeats) moving rapidly from point to point with their plateaux upon their heads, furnished with a raised shelf, on which the crystal or china plates destined to serve for the one, and the pink and yellow glories of the other, are temptingly displayed — the...
247 ページ - ... the vagrant exhibitors of dancing bears and grinning monkeys — the sunburnt Greek, with his large, flapping hat of Leghorn straw, and Frank costume, hurrying along from group to group with his pails of ice ; and recommending his delicate and perishable luxury in as many languages as he is likely to earn piastres — the never-failing water-carrier, with his large turban, his graceful jar of red earth, and his crystal goblet — the negroes of the higher harems, laden with carpets, chibouks,...
299 ページ - ... they know that, when once received into a Turkish family, they become members of it in every sense of the word, and are almost universally sure to rise in the world if they conduct themselves worthily. The negroes only remain in the open court, where they are squatted in groups until summoned to show themselves to a purchaser, while the Circassians and Georgians, generally brought there by their parents at their own request, occupy the closed apartments, in order that they may not be exposed...
208 ページ - Nothing atrophises the heart like luxury — nothing deadens the feelings like the strife and struggle for power : — and in the East, where a man's fortune is ever built up upon the ruin of his neighbour, and where he springs into his seat with his foot upon the neck of a worsted rival, it were worse than folly to expect that the social virtues can be encouraged and exhibited among the great. But the Turk of the provinces is a being of a different order : a creature of calm temperament, and philosophic...