 | 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1856 - 514 pages
...and Italy, no barbaric gorgeousness as in the buildings of India ; yet the view was strange, unique, and how few have looked upon the celebrated shrine...felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Ilaji from the far north. It was as if the poetical legend of the Arab spoke truth, and that 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
...and Italy, no barbaric gorgeousness as in the buildings of India; yet the view was 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 684 pages
...and Italy, uo barbaric gorgeousness as in the buildings of India ; yet the view was 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... | |
 | 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
...and Italy, no barbaric gorgeousness as in the buildings of India ; yet the view was strange, unique, and how few have looked upon the celebrated shrine...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... | |
 | 1874 - 368 pages
...and Italy, no barbaric gorgeousness as in the buildings of India ; yet the view was strange, unique, and how few have looked upon the celebrated shrine...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - 1879 - 576 pages
...Italy, no barbarous gorgeousuess as in the buildings of India ; yet the view was strange, unique — and how few have looked upon the celebrated shrine!...felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Maji from the far-north. It was as if the poetical legends of the Arab spoke truth, and that the waving... | |
 | 1880 - 612 pages
...the throng of devotees to press his lips on the Kaaba. We can well believe that ' Of all the crowd of worshippers who clung weeping to the curtain, or who...felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Hadji from the far north.' Though, ' to confess the humbling truth, theirs was the high feeling of... | |
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I may truly say that, of all the worshippers who clung weeping to the curtain, or who pressed their beating hearts to the stone, none felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Haji from the far-north. 
