In and around Stamboul, Volume 2 |
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In and around Stamboul: By Mrs. Edmund Hornsby. In 2 vols, Volume 2 Emilia Bithynia Hornsby Volledige weergave - 1858 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
adieu amused Armenian Baidar Bairam Balaklava Baretta BASHI-BAZOUKS beautiful Black Sea blue boat Bosphorus breeze bride bright caïque caïquejees chant charming church cliff Colonel colour Constantinople Crimea crowd curious dark dear delighted Dhudu divan donkey door dressed Edith Belina Edmund English Eugenio feridjee fir-trees flowers French garden Giacomo Golden Horn Greek green Halki Harem heard hills huge illuminated Imaum island kind lamps laughing LETTER light look lovely magnificent Magyar ment minarets monastery morning mosque mother Mount Olympus mountain night Orta-kioy palace party Pasha Pera piastres pleasant poor pretty Prinkipo quietly Ramazan rocks round ruined Sea of Marmora Sebastopol seemed shade ships shore side sight Signor soldiers soon splendid Stamboul Sultan Sweet Waters things told trees Turk Turkish valley veiled village walk waves Weybridge wild wind women wooden wreaths yesterday
Populaire passages
Pagina 145 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Pagina 219 - The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living will That made it stir on the shore. Did he stand at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro...
Pagina i - Here and there studded with a seventy-four ; Sophia's cupola with golden gleam • The cypress groves ; Olympus high and hoar ; The twelve isles, and the more than I could dream, Far less describe, present the very view Which charm'd the charming Mary Montagu. IV. I have a passion for the name of
Pagina 39 - ... down goes the yashmak of one of the ladies. She is very pretty, but very tiresome : my brother is afraid to look at her. What should he do if the Pasha were suddenly to return, or one of the slaves to enter and report this to him ? So he turns his head away, and tries to induce her to go on with her lesson. Would you believe it...
Pagina 39 - It seems that her younger brother, who is remarkably good-looking, and showed a great talent for music, was sent to Vienna in their prosperous days for his education. His pianoforte-playing is thought much of here ; and being so poor, and the Sultan having set the fashion of Turkish ladies learning music, he now gives lessons to the wives and daughters of several Pashas on the Bosphorus. He is married, greatly attached to his wife, and has two pretty children; added to this, he is a grave, shy young...
Pagina 93 - Effendi returning, I shall certainly be taking off my slipper and beating him upon the face in a most savage manner, or breaking his chibouque, or making him ' eat dirt' in some dreadful way or other, to my utter disgrace in Turkey and elsewhere.
Pagina 39 - ... lessons to the wives and daughters of several Pashas on the Bosphorus. He is married, greatly attached to his wife, and has two pretty children; added to this, he is a grave, shy young man. Well, Dhudu's trouble for her brother is this. He goes quietly in the morning to give his lesson. Perhaps there are two or three veiled ladies in the room into which he is ushered by the attendants. Sometimes the Pasha himself is there, but very seldom ; there are always two or three black attendants. " The...
Pagina 87 - ... the house ; but, calling out in a harsh grating voice, some other slaves appeared, and leading the way up a wooden flight of steps, covered with luxuriant creepers, ushered us into a large cool hall, floored with the usual matting. We were then conducted through several rooms, to a shady one, with a painted ceiling and latticed window, looking on to the Bosphorus.
Pagina 159 - ... dressing-room ; it will make her dream a story of the Arabian Nights. I saw the advertisement of Lady Easthope's translation of Ubicini's book on Turkey, but have not been able to get it yet. One treasures up the remembrance of graceful kindnesses, like so many precious jewels, especially when so far away. How often I think of you, my dear Mrs. Austin ! You must pardon me, but it is sometimes so tempting to express feelings of gratitude and affection ; and I think that the world would be much...
Pagina 91 - Turkish, talked over its ailments, while I walked with the other ladies to the end of the apartment : then, seeing their conversation over, I returned to say adieu. A sweeter or a sadder face I never saw : it quite haunted me.