| 1856 - 634 pages
...entire book, he declares that ' of all the ' worshippers who clung weeping to the curtain of the Kaabah, or ' who pressed their beating hearts to the stone,...felt, for the ' moment, a deeper emotion than did the Haji from the far north ; ' though he ' confesses the humbling truth that theirs was the high ' feeling... | |
| 1856 - 766 pages
...in the buildings of India ; yet the view was strange and antique ; and how few had looked upon that celebrated shrine! I may truly say that, of all the...felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Hadji from the far north. It was as if the poetical legends of the Arab spoke truth, and that the waving... | |
| 1857 - 1196 pages
...realizing the plans and hopes of many and many a year. The mirage-medium of fancy invested the huge catafalque and its gloomy pall with peculiar charms....felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the haji from the far north. It was as if the poetical legends of the Arabs spoke truth, and that the waving... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1856 - 570 pages
...gorgeousness as in the buildings of India; yet the view was strange, unique, and how few have looked upou the celebrated shrine! I may truly say that, of all...felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Haji from the far north. It was as if the poetical legends of the Arab spoke truth, and that the waving... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 pages
...of India. Yet the view was strange, unique, and how few have looked upon the celebrated •brine ! I may truly say, that of all the worshippers who clung...curtain, or who pressed their beating hearts to the etone, none felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the hajj from the fur north. It was as if... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 686 pages
...strange, unique, and how few have looked upon the celebrated shrine ! I may truly say that, of all worshippers who clung weeping to the curtain, or who...pressed their beating hearts to the stone, none felt for a moment a deeper emotion than did the Haji from the far North. It was as if the poetical legends of... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 686 pages
...strange, unique, and how few have looked upon the celebrated shrine ! I may truly say that, of all worshippers who clung weeping to the curtain, or who...pressed their beating hearts to the stone, none felt for a moment a deeper emotion than did tbe Haji from the far North. It was as if the poetical legends of... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1857 - 486 pages
...from India, where Agni (the fire god) was, as the Vedas prove, the object of man's earliest adoration. and how few have looked upon the celebrated shrine...felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Haji from the far north. It was as if the poetical legends of the Arab spoke truth, and that the waving... | |
| 1857 - 884 pages
...only Christian eyes that had gazed on it since the days of the Prophet of Islam. Of all the worshipers who clung weeping to the curtain, or who pressed their...felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Hajji from the far North. It was, to him, as if the poetic legends of the Arabs spoke truth, and the... | |
| 1872 - 354 pages
...realizing the plans and hopes of many and many a year. The mirage medium of fancy invested the huge catafalque and its gloomy pall with peculiar charms....felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Hadji from the far north. It was as if the poetical legends of the Arab spoke truth, and that the waving... | |
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