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User Review - William345 - LibraryThingIronically, for this second volume describes the achievement of Burton's quest--that is, his entry into Medina and Mecca--I found it not as stirring as Volume 1. This from the perspective of someone ... Read full review
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User Review - hmskip - LibraryThingThis book is not quite what I expected. However, Burton does have a great descriptive power and his detailed descriptions of some of the more chaotic scenes during his travels are quite entertaining. Anyone wishing to get a complete description of the Mecca and Medina shrines ( Read full review
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Page 63 - ... is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. In search of wit these lose their common sense, And then turn critics...
Page 24 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Page 371 - It was a sight, indeed,' says Pitts, ' able to pierce one's heart, to behold so many thousands in their garments of humility and mortification/ with their naked heads, and cheeks watered with tears, and to hear their grievous sighs and sobs, begging earnestly for the remission of their sins.
Page 201 - In the name of Allah, and Allah is Almighty ! (I do this) in hatred of the fiend and to his shame.
Page 207 - For a' the blude that's shed on earth Rins through the springs o' that countrie. Syne they came on to a garden green, And she pu'd an apple frae a tree — ' " Take this for thy wages, true Thomas ; It will give thee the tongue that can never lie.
Page 193 - So every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 201 - I purpose loosening my Ihram according to the practice of the Prophet, whom may Allah bless and preserve ! O Allah, make unto me in every hair, a light, a purity, and a generous reward! In the name of Allah, and Allah is Almighty!
Page 88 - ... love will fly her home. The fugitives must brave every danger, for revenge, at all times the Bedouin's idol, now becomes the lode-star of his existence. But the Arab lover will dare all consequences. " Men have died and the worms have eaten them, but not for love," may be true in the West ; it is false in the East.
Page 298 - Stone ;' it forms a part of the sharp angle of the building at four or five feet above the ground. It is an irregular oval of about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly smoothed. It looks as if the whole had been broken into many pieces by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine...
Page 139 - ... which filled the other half of the channel. The left side was a precipice, grim and barren, but not so abrupt as its brother. Opposite us the way seemed barred by piles of hills, crest rising above crest into the far blue distance. Day still smiled upon the upper peaks, but the lower slopes and the fiumara bed were already curtained with grey sombre shade. A damp seemed to fall upon our spirits as we approached this Valley Perilous. I remarked...
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| Title | Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Volume 2 Bohn's standard library Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Sir Richard Francis Burton |
| Author | Sir Richard Francis Burton |
| Editor | Lady Isabel Burton |
| Contributor | Stanley Lane-Poole |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | G. Bell, 1906 |
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