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The imagination of an Edgar Poe might picture these Nefta gardens as the reverse of those of Semiramis sunk, that is, further into the profundities of the earth than the already existing Sahara plantations with this difference, that here, to obviate infiltration from the ooze of the Chott, sturdy walls must enclose them.
The next day I went aboard the 'Semiramis, where, when I appeared upon the quarter-deck, I found myself an object of some interest. The report that I was the man about to command the 'Brian, that was the real name of the old craft, had caused some curiosity among the officers, and they all spoke to me with great courtesy.
And is there not a deep significance in the fact that these men of warring creeds and opposed traditions came together to do homage to no commanding personality, no Semiramis or Boadicea of old, no Catherine of Russia or Elizabeth of England; but to a sovereign whose chief characteristic has been that of being a true woman, with a true woman's instinctive sagacity and wisdom of the heart: a woman with no glamour of youth and beauty, but bowed with the weight of years and widowhood and cares of State; a Queen who, on the morning of her crowning triumph, sent forth no royal proclamation couched in set and pompous periods, but laid her trembling hands on the bowed head of her people, and gave them a simple mother's blessing: "Tell my beloved people that I pray from the bottom of my heart that God may bless them"?
Catherine of Russia, Voltaire's adored Semiramis of the North, the benefactress of Diderot, the ready helper of the philosophic party, pressed her congratulations on the great pontiff of the old order, who now thundered anathema against the philosophers and all their works. It is important to remember the stage which the Revolution had reached, when Burke was composing his attack upon it.
In the neighborhood of Adrapan, on the road leading to Bagistan, stood Concobar, which is undoubtedly the modern Kungawar, and perhaps the Chavon of Diodorus. Here, according to the Sicilian historian, Semiramis built a palace and laid out a paradise; and here, in the time of Isidore, was a famous temple of Artemis.
Mardonius answered nothing. Long since he had learned the folly of setting his will against that of the masterful princess at his side. And was not victory certain? Was not Artazostra doing even as Semiramis of Nineveh had done of old? “The army is ready, Excellency,” declared an adjutant, bowing in his saddle.
Similarly. when the Greeks sought to trace the civilization of Asia to its source, they carried it back to Ninus and Semiramis, whom they made the founders, respectively, of Nineveh and Babylon, the two chief cities of the early world. Among the architectural works of the Assyrians, the first place is challenged by their palaces.
The next morning, the admiral sent for O'Brien, and told him confidentially, for he was the same admiral who had received O'Brien when he escaped from prison with me, and was very kind to him, that there was some hitch about his having the Semiramis, and that orders had come down to pay her off, all standing, and examine her bottom, if Captain O'Brien had not joined her.
She wore on her finger the carbuncle which she thought worth a million francs, but which was really only a splendid imitation. Seeing Semiramis thus decked out for the sacrifice, I thought it my bounden duty to offer her my homage. I would have knelt before her and kissed her hand, but she would not let me, and instead opened her arms and strained me to her breast.
You affect to be above your sex yet what character do you despise more in women than that which you assume? Semiramis should not be a coquette. There now, I have offended you I confess I am very rude." "I am not offended," said Florence, almost struggling with her tears; and she added inly, "Ah, I am too happy!"
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