Persia as it isS. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886 - 326 σελίδες |
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Persia as It Is: Being Sketches of Modern Persian Life and Character Charles James Wills Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2016 |
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Σελίδα 83 - Narcissus poelicwi massed together like packed figs ; these too give out a strong perfume. But what strikes one most is the air of perfect repair and cleanliness of everything. No grimy walls, no soiled curtains here ; all is clean as a new pin, all is spick and span. The courtyard is shaded by orangetrees covered with bloom, and the heavy odour of neroli pervades the place. Many of the last year's fruit have been left upon the trees for ornament, and hang in bright yellow clusters out of reach....
Σελίδα 172 - Let us play," assented the guests. They all set to, at a kind of lansquenet. All were wealthy men, and as they gambled only for silver coin, not much harm was done. Like a Christmas party of children at Pope Joan, how they shouted ; and how they cheated, openly, most openly ! He who cheated most was happiest, and the only disgrace was in being found out. S Khan, who sat next to me, had a method of cheating so simple, so Arcadian in its simplicity, that it deserves description. He lost, lost persistently...
Σελίδα 82 - Goldfish of large size flash in shoals in the clear tank. On either side of it are long rectangular flower-beds, sunk six inches below the surface of the court. This pavement, which consists of what we should call pantiles, is clean and perfect, and freshly sprinkled ; and the sprinkling, and consequent evaporation, makes a grateful coolness. In the flower-beds are irregular clumps of marvel of Peru, some three feet high, of varied colored bloom, coming up irregularly in wild luxuriance.
Σελίδα i - Probably the most amusing book of travel that has been published in recent years. . : . From beginning to end the book is anecdotal ; there is scarcely a page without its story or incident, some of them rather extraordinary, but all entertaining in the highest degree."— The Times. " The volume is full of characteristic sketches and anecdotes.
Σελίδα 166 - he is about to astonish you. You see the bearded Khan I introduced you to ; he is S Khan, general of cavalry.
Σελίδα 167 - ... acupuncture; that he has a special confidential valet, who is in the habit of each morning inserting an ordinary sewing-needle for more than an inch in the seat of pain ; but that this morning the needle had been inserted, and then had disappeared. The general rapidly removes his clothing, and exposes his back. There are innumerable scars of acupuncture. I gravely examine the back. " Ah, there, there it is ! " he shouts.' I am compelled to frankly inform him that the needle has probably been...
Σελίδα 85 - So here was an end of my visit. We shook hands heartily, and the lady gave me a huge bouquet of narcissus as I left. As I rode home through the glaring streets, I felt all the more clearly that I had been merely sent for out of curiosity. But the handsome little carpet I afterwards received as a fee reconciled me to the experience, and caused me to remember that it is not in Persia alone that ladies summon a doctor simply...
Σελίδα 164 - ... half-hour's ride through tortuous and evil-smelling lanes, by mosques and through bazaars, in and out of repair, we came to the large, mudplastered portico of Mirza M Khan's house. At the door was a sentry, who saluted. I dismounted, my servants — as is the custom — supporting me under the arm-pits. "The khan is expecting you — be pleased to enter," said a grave and wellclad domestic, who proceeded to usher me into the house.
Σελίδα 165 - ... guitar; while an old man made night hideous by drumming on a horrible kind of military drum called a dohol, a thing that I have seen, except on this occasion, used at Eastern weddings only. Happily, he varied the dreadful performance by eldritch solos on a two-tubed flute, such as that we see in Roman processions on ancient buildings. Singers, too, made night hideous. But all these men were fortunately in the open air, and their performance was not, so deafening when one entered the room. "Ah,...
Σελίδα 160 - ... etiquette would cause at once a loss of caste. In fact, at first, to the newcomer they seem all Pharisees, and wear their phylacteries broad. Such are the upper-class Persians outside their own homes, and from sunrise to sunset. It is of the Oriental in his other phase, and among his friends, or