Egypt and Mohammed Ali: Or, Travels in the Valley of the Nile, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1834 - Egypt |
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... direction , and , in sweep- ing round , rushes with prodigious violence against the opposing bank . I saw one of the capitals which had adorned the portico of this edifice , square like IBIS - HEADED GODDESS . 11 those of the great.
... direction , and , in sweep- ing round , rushes with prodigious violence against the opposing bank . I saw one of the capitals which had adorned the portico of this edifice , square like IBIS - HEADED GODDESS . 11 those of the great.
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... direction . Some time after I found him among the rocks , staring , pale , a ludicrous personi- fication of terror ; and on inquiring the reason , he replied that in a small cavity of the hill he had sud- denly encountered an animal ...
... direction . Some time after I found him among the rocks , staring , pale , a ludicrous personi- fication of terror ; and on inquiring the reason , he replied that in a small cavity of the hill he had sud- denly encountered an animal ...
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... direction . The great temples of Karnak , Medinet Habou , Edfoo , and Phile have their faces towards the south . The sacred edifices of Nubia , in like manner , follow no rule , being turned some in one direction , some in another ...
... direction . The great temples of Karnak , Medinet Habou , Edfoo , and Phile have their faces towards the south . The sacred edifices of Nubia , in like manner , follow no rule , being turned some in one direction , some in another ...
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... direction of others , by whose eloquence they are bound in fetters . Others again , whose sole pretensions are based on their acquaintance with the practice and ordinary routine of the arts , presume , without any other qualification ...
... direction of others , by whose eloquence they are bound in fetters . Others again , whose sole pretensions are based on their acquaintance with the practice and ordinary routine of the arts , presume , without any other qualification ...
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... direction of genius , diffuse over the soul , the divine breath that swept over the minds of the worshippers , partook less of piety than of poetry . It moved , it enlivened , it vivified , but it did not elevate . CCCCXXXV . Egypt ...
... direction of genius , diffuse over the soul , the divine breath that swept over the minds of the worshippers , partook less of piety than of poetry . It moved , it enlivened , it vivified , but it did not elevate . CCCCXXXV . Egypt ...
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adorned Alexandria ancient animal antiquity appearance Arabs architecture Aroëris arrived arts banks beauty Bedouin beheld boats Cairo camels canal caravanserai cella chamber character colossal statues columns covered crocodile descending desert discover dromedaries edifice Egypt Egyptians entered entrance erected excavations extremity Fayoom feet Fellahs female figures Gournou grandeur Greek guides hand harem head Herodotus hieroglyphics hundred Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants interior Isis Karnak king labour lake length likewise lofty Luxor magnificent Medinet Memnon ments Moggrebyns Mohammed Mohammedan mosque mountains mummies Nile obelisks observed ornaments Osiris painted palaces Papremis Pasha passed perhaps piastres pillars plain possessed present probably proceeded propylon pyramid resembling river rock round ruins sacred Sakkarah sand sculpture seemed serpent Sheikh side stone Strabo supposed temple temple of Karnak Thebes Thoth thousand tion tombs travellers trees Turkish Turks vast village visited walls whole wind women worship Youssouff
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Page 58 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet: I should have slept; then had I been at rest: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves...
Page ii - How has kind Heaven adorn'd the happy land, And scatter'd blessings with a wasteful hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that Heaven and Earth impart, The smiles of Nature, and the charms of Art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains...
Page ii - With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains ? The poor inhabitant beholds in vain The redd'ning orange, and the swelling grain.
Page 76 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 63 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat ; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye survey'd the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Page 59 - Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight, Ye gods who rule the regions of the night, Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state! Obscure they went thro' dreary shades, that led Along the waste dominions of the dead.
Page 336 - ... which the traveller beholds on approaching the city. Ascending a long flight of steps, and passing under a magnificent doorway, we entered the vestibule, and proceeded towards the sacred portion of the edifice ; where, on stepping over a small railing, it was necessary to take oif our babooshes, or red Turkish shoes.
Page 34 - With various skill, and high embroidery graced. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Page 562 - Mecca, and the pyramids of Egypt"; fancying these last to be the sepulchres of Seth, and of Enoch and Sabi his two sons, whom they look on as the first propagators of their religion ; at these structures they sacrifice a cock and a black calf, and offer up incense y.
Page 51 - Egyptian plain (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars 505 From each wide portal issuing to the wars...