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ReviewsSongs Reviews Editorial Review - unl.edu Songs of a Stranger. London: Published for the Author. .... The following, though, perhaps, not the best of the 'Songs of a Stranger,' will, we are sure, ... Common terms and phrasesafar Alas Aldhelm Arab away Bahia bark beams beauty birds black ants Bowdich Brazil breast breeze Bremhill bright brightly gay buckler Caba camel canoes Cape CAPE OF STORMS Cava's rock cave of thy changeful heart Remembers charge thee—come forth charm cherish'd chesyble clouds Colabah cold Columbus come dart Diogo dream Duma Egypt emerald ever fair fatal fatal hour fate fled fled in gloom flowers foam fond gaze gleam glide glittering gloom gloom away glowing gone harp hast heart hope hour Hours so dear Ingrena Khalif King Athelstan knew leopard light linger LOUISA STUART COSTELLO lov'd loved thee lustre Malmesbury meteor Meyldulph midst mournful murmur Nautilus ne'er night Nile north That bears Notes to Koran numbers o'er palm trees parasite pass'd pass'd away perfum'd plumage purple Purple jessamine radiance rainbow Rememb'ring rock round thee sail Saint Salvador Saxon scenes seem'd shade shine shore sigh smile song soon my soul sorrow soul sound Spain sparkling spirit spread sting strayM stream sunny sweet Tapuyas tears tempests tender tender sigh terror thee thine thine eye thou art thou wilt though thy changeful heart Till tornado trees TROUBADOUR Twas twine vain varied hue voice vows wakes wandered waters wave whose Willow Isles wilt wind Winding Sands wings woody islands Ye are fled References from web pagesSongs Essay Popular passagesShedad, the son of Ad, of whom the eastern writers deliver many fabulous things, particularly that he finished the magnificent city his father had begun ; wherein he built a fine palace, adorned with delicious gardens, to embellish which he spared neither cost nor labour, proposing thereby to create in his subjects a superstitious veneration of himself as a God. Page 156 I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground, with my head to the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor or purple haze which... Page 157 Bessent, or Spring. He is represented as a beautiful youth, sometimes conversing with his mother and consort, in the midst of his gardens and temples ; sometimes riding by moonlight on a parrot or lory, and attended by dancing girls, or nymphs ; the foremost of whom bears his colours, which are a fish, on a red ground. Page 151 . Part of the crew were lost, others escaped this death to suffer one more dreadful ; the natives seized and eat them. Diogo saw that there was no other possible chance of saving his life, than by making himself as useful as possible to these cannibals. He therefore exerted himself in recovering things from the wreck, and by these exertions succeeded in conciliating their favour. Among other things he was fortunate enough... Page 149 Caramuru ! which signified a man of fire ; and they cried out that he would destroy them : but he told the men, whose astonishment had less of fear mingled with it, that he would go with them to war, and kill their enemies. Caramuru was the name which from thenceforward he was known by. They marched against the Tapuyas ; the fame of this dreadful engine went before them, and the Tapuyas fled. From a slave, Caramuru... Page 150 Moawiyah, who sending for him to know the truth of the matter, Colabah related his whole adventure; that as he was seeking a camel he had lost, he found himself on a sudden at the gates of this city, and entering it saw not one inhabitant, at which, being terrified, he stayed no longer than to take with him some fine stones which he showed the Khalif. Page 156 His bow of sugar-cane or flowers, with a string of bees, and his five arrows, each pointed with an Indian blossom of a heating quality, are allegories equally new and beautiful. Page 151 Though he saw their furious glances, and their daggers half display'd ; No fear was in his soul — but his heart was wrung with woe — Shall he quail before their murmurs, and his glorious meed forego ? Had he braved the ocean's terrors in tempest and in night — And shall he furl his sails with the promised goal in sight ? For he... Page 105 ... them than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it; men, women, children, cattle, corn, every thing was washed away in a moment, and left the place where the village Agalta stood, without any thing to indicate that there had ever been a house on the spot. Page 148 He therefore exerted himself in recovering things from the wreck, and by these exertions succeeded in conciliating their favour. Among other things he was fortunate enough to get on shore some barrels of powder and a musket, which he put in order at his first leisure, after his masters were returned to their village ; and one day when the opportunity was favourable, brought down a bird before them. Page 149 More book information |