Artists and Arabs: Or, Sketching in SunshineSampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1870 - 208 páginas |
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Algeria Algiers aloes amongst Arab arcades artists Atlas Atlas Mountains Bab-el-Oued beauty Blidah blue Bouffarik Bouzareah bright cafés calm camels camp caravanserai Champ de Mars CHAPTER Chiffa close coffee colour contrast corner costume crowd curious dark delight English European faces feet French gold grace ground heights Horace Vernet horses houris houses journey Kabyle Hills Kabylia ladies leaves light looking Mahommedan Majorca Marabouts Marseilles medan Medeah military Mitidja Moorish Moors morning mosque mountains Mustapha Napoléon nearly night obtain ornaments ourselves painter painting Pallanza palm palm-trees pass pattern perhaps picture picturesque plain prayers quietly reader Sahel scarcely scene seems seen shadows shelter shining shore side Sidi Ferruch sight sketch sometimes sound streets surrounded tent thing Tiziouzou tombs towers town trees tribe valley variety veiled watch whilst wild wind wonderful young Zouaves
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Página 123 - ... soft pulpy stems. What wonderful variety there is in their forms, what transparent beauty of colour, what eccentric shadows they cast upon each other, and with what a grand spiral sweep some of the young shoots rear upwards ! So tender and pliable are they, that in some positions a child might snap their leaves, and yet so wonderful is the distribution of strength, that they would resist at spear-point the approach of a lion, and almost turn a charge of cavalry. If we snap off the point of one...
Página 192 - ... friends into trouble, by distributing tracts amongst the Moors ; and there are ladies who (when their baggage is detained at one of the ports), endeavour to break down the barriers of official routine in an unexpected way. ' The douane did not choose to wake up and give us our luggage,' writes one, 'it was such a lazy douane ; and though I went again and again and said pretty things to the gendarmes, it was of no use.
Página 144 - On the Place it was a fearful scene, people came tearing down the neighbouring streets, women and children ran aimlessly hither and thither, shrieking wildly, men uttering hoarse sounds of terror, whilst the ground heaved and trembled beneath our feet, and we gazed at the surrounding houses in expectant horror ; it seemed as if they must fall like a pack of cards. The...
Página 132 - We have scarcely alluded to the palmettoleaves and branches that filled the air, to the sound of rushing water, to the distant roar of the sea, nor to many other aspects of the storm. It lasted, not much more than an hour, but the water covered the floor of our little temple before the rain subsided, and the ground...
Página 129 - It breaks over the tombs, and tears through the plantation, with a tremendous surging sound, putting to flight the Arabs on guard, who wrap their bournouses about them and hurry off to the village, with the cry of ' Allah il Allah ;' leaving the care of the tombs to the palms, that have stood guard over them so long.
Página 107 - Odours of orange-groves, the aromatic scent of cedars, the sweet breath of wild flowers, roses, honeysuckles and violets, should pervade this page ; something should be done, which no words can accomplish, to give the true impression of the scene, to picture the luxuriant wild growth of the surrounding vegetation (radiant in a sunshine which to a northerner is unknown), and...
Página 116 - Mitidja plain immediately behind, furnishing the horizontal line of repose so indispensable to calm beauty of landscape ; whilst in the background the faintly indicated serrated summits of the Atlas chain preserve the whole picture from monotony. The curve of shore, the horizontal bar of plain, the scarcely more than suggested angles of the mountains, form a combination of contrasting yet...
Página 18 - As he winds his way through the narrow and steep slippery streets it is well to see how nobly our Arab bears his load, how beautifully balanced is his lithe figure, and with what grace and ease he walks along. It is generally admitted, we believe, that " a vegetable diet will not produce heroes...
Página 107 - Bouzareah, and indeed everywhere in the neighbourhood of Algiers, sketching in winter time in the open air. Odours of orange-groves, the aromatic scent of cedars, the sweet breath of wild flowers, roses...
Página 108 - ... of watching the serene days decline into sunsets that light up the Kabyle Hills with crests of gold, and end in sudden twilights that spread a weird unearthly light across the silver...