Anastasius, Or, Memoirs of a Greek: Written at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1J. Murray, 1827 - 838 pages |
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Page 80 - When patriotism, public spirit, and preeminence in arts, science, literature, and warfare were the road to distinction, the Greeks shone the first of patriots, of heroes, of painters, of poets, and of philosophers. Now that craft and subtlety, adulation and intrigue, are the only paths to greatness, these same Greeks are — what you see them...
Page 68 - ... connected, became transformed, as if by magic, into three distinct cities, each, individually, of prodigious extent, and each separated from the other two by a wide arm of that sea whose silver tide encompassed their base, and made its vast circuit rest half in Europe, half in Asia. Entranced by the magnificent spectacle, I felt as if all the faculties of my soul were insufficient fully to embrace its glories.
Page 67 - A most favourable wind continued to swell our sails. Our mighty keel shot rapidly through the waves of the Propontis, foaming before our prow. Every instant the vessel seemed to advance with accelerated speed; as if — become animated — it felt the near approach to its place of rest ; and at last Constantinople rose, in all its grandeur, before us. ' With eyes riveted on the opening splendours, I watched, as they rose out of the bosom of the surrounding waters, the pointed minarets, the swelling...
Page 91 - The soldiers, terror-struck, threw down their arms without looking behind them ; and the Highlander, with a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other, made them do exactly as he pleased. The rage and despair of these men, on seeing themselves made prisoners by a single individual, may be easily imagined.
Page 162 - Sultana ; and for a long while he continued exceedingly anxious to give the ladies of the imperial harem a fete on the Black sea ; but that project failing, from their sending no answers to his notes, he wondered who could bear the dowdies of Constantinople, that had seen the Trois Sultanes of Marmontel at the Paris opera.
Page 109 - Signor whom their real or supposed misdemeanors have brought to this abode of unavailing tears. Here are confined alike the ragged beggar urged by famine to steal a loaf, and the rich banker instigated by avarice to deny a deposit; the bandit who uses open violence, and the baker who employs false weights; the land robber and the pirate of the seas, the assassin and the cheat. Here, as in the infernal regions, are mingled natives of every country — Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Jews and Gipsies -,...
Page 68 - ... the expanse of the sky. At first agglomerated in a single confused mass, the lesser parts of this immense whole seemed, as we advanced, by degrees to unfold, to disengage themselves from each other, and to grow into various groups, divided by wide chasms and deep indentures, — until at last the...
Page 216 - ... he had just swallowed was sending up to his brain. I sat contemplating him with mixed curiosity and dismay, when, as if for a moment roused from his torpor, he took me by the- hand, and fixing on my countenance his dim vacant eyes, said in an impressive tone : " Young man, thy days are yet few ; take the advice of one who, alas ! has counted many. Lose no time ; hie thee hence, nor cast behind one lingering look : but if thou hast not the strength, why tarry even here ? Thy journey is but half...
Page 198 - Moslemin ; and if you doubt my receipt, you .may even get a fethwa of the Mufty, if you please, to confirm its efficacy. Whenever you meet with an infidel, abuse him with all your might, and no one will doubt you are yourself a stanch believer.
Page 196 - ... fourth and last year to have nothing to do but to go over the whole again, and imprint it indelibly on my memory. By way of a little foretaste? of his method of disputation, he took up one of the controverted points ; first raised his own objections against it ; and then, — as he had an indubitable right to do with his undisputed property, — again completely overset them by the irresistible force of his arguments; after which — having entirely silenced his adversary, he rose, equally proud...