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ter % ra&p £ et had deceived ua , as it h « t often done l > efor ^ othei * Hties of Syfia and Greece . The laost ririserable hamlet of the Alps or the Pyretaees , the most neglected alleys of such of our Faubourgs as are giV ^ n up to the lowest class of the labouring population , exhibit more luxury , cleanliness , and even elegance , than the desolate streets of the Queen of Cities . —La mar tine , vol . ij . p . 13 . He thus graphically describes what was once Tyre r
• This city , at present called Sour by the Arabs , is situated at the ftnrthe * extremity Of a peninsula , and seems to rise oiit of the ^ aVes . At a distance , y 6 u would stilt imagine it to be a new , beautifcH , white , and animated city ; but it is nothing more than a shadow , which vanishes on approaching it . A few hundreds of falling houses , in Which
the Arabs fold large flocks of sheep and black goats wfth long hanging earn , which defiled before us on the plain , are all that remain of Tyre ! She has no longer a port on the sea— -no longer roads upon land : the prophecies respecting her have been long since accomplished . '—^ -1 bid . vol . i . p . 299 .
Among many equally beautiful descriptions of the scenery of Mount Lebanon , we select the following , purposely inserting the mention ef his child . His love for her is one of the most interesting" points about him ; and it is rendered doubly affecting , because , very shortly after this journey they made together over part of Lebanon , he lost her by death . * The gulf , brighter than the sky which canopied it , reflected peirt of the BTiows of Lebanon and the battlemented monasteries stationed on the prominent peaks . Some fishing-boats were passing in full sail to take shelter in the river . The valley at our feet ; the declivities towards the plain ; the current sweeping through its pyramidal arches ; the sea with it * creeks amongst the rocks ; the immense block of Lebanon , with its ipnum ^ mble varieties of structu re ; those pyramids of snow which seemed 4 q pierce , like silver cones , the heights of heaven , where the eye searched for them as for stars ; the insensible sounds of insects around us ; the
Ipejody gf a thousand birds among the trees ; the lowing of the buffaloes ; the almost human plaipts of the camels of the caravan ; the dull and periodical roar of the breakers dashing upon the sand at the entrance of the . river ; U * e interminable horizon of the Mediterranean ; the green and serpentine bed of the Nahr-Bairout on the right ; the gigantic and indented wail of Lebanon in front ; the serene and beaming dome of heaven , skirted with the summits of the mountains and the conical
heads of colossal trees ; the coolness and perfume of the air , in which everything appeared to swim like an image in the transparent waters of a , Swia » lake : all these objects , sounds , and shadows , this light , anil ibete improtjiioo * , constituted the most sublime and beautiful landscape Wy fcUgWd seja » ea ever drank in * What must it then have been to Julia ? slie waa all sensibility— -radiant * trembling with ecstacy ; and , for ^ y p * rt > I clelightad to impress suck spectacles upon her childish ima-£ 4 d « £ oi * . T"be J > eiiy is depicted in them more forcibly than in the lines vT a patecbiftm * be is iheje represented in traits worthy of htm ; the * 0 y ^* Jcn » tbft Bturpaftuap founty fit exceUiag nature reveal him spcb a « be is so abb' infant minoT which translates the perception of physical and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 790, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/34/
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