Travels in Crete, المجلد 1

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الصفحة 176 - When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
الصفحة 70 - When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished : and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
الصفحة 121 - He had a crois of laton ful of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones. But with these relikes, whanne that he fond A poure persone dwelling up on- lond, Upon a day he gat him more moneie Than that the persone gat in monethes tweie. And thus with fained flattering and japes, He made the persone, and the peple, his apes.
الصفحة 160 - Hic Venus, indigno nati concussa dolore, dictamnum genetrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida, puberibus caulem foliis et flore comantem purpureo ; non illa feris incognita capris gramina, cum tergo volucres haesere sagittae...
الصفحة 27 - With a soft inland murmur. — Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
الصفحة 318 - Burna-bashi seems to be nearly of the same temperature, of 60 a all the year, and will consequently feel cool when the air is at 70° or 80°, and warm when it is at 40° or 50°.
الصفحة 179 - Before I was aware of this Greek concealment of the face, I was not a little surprised to find myself graciously regarded by a pair of eyes belonging, as I supposed, to some unknown Turkish lady, but which, as I afterwards found out, were those of my hostess. Her husband says that he thinks the custom even still more proper for a Greek's wife than for a Turk's ; for if she did not observe it, she might attract the gaze of some true believer. Although the supposition, that the seclusion of Greek women...
الصفحة 66 - Rhamne', fell in with my host's father on the same occasion. In conformity with their general custom, they put him to death. At the same period of the struggle the Christians used invariably to slay even their female prisoners : this was done to avoid what was regarded as a still deeper crime than murder, — improper familiarity between their own warriors and any woman who had not received Christian baptism.
الصفحة 211 - A good hour was spent in reaching the summit, towards the northern extremity of which I observed foundations of the massive walls of a building the length of which was about eighty feet. Within this space is an aperture in the ground, which may perhaps once have led into a moderate-sized cave; but, whatever may have been its former size, it is now so filled up, that a man cannot stand in it, and its diameter is not above eight or ten feet. These then are the only remains of that object of deep religious...
الصفحة 4 - The arches are still to be seen, which were designed for the Venetian galleys; and coats of arms are found over the doorways of some of the principal houses.

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