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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... edifice , with water - jars for the traveller , and a large clean chamber open to the north . The aspect of the precipices bordering the road is bold and striking , rising in black pyramidal masses , in many places chiselled with ...
... edifice , with water - jars for the traveller , and a large clean chamber open to the north . The aspect of the precipices bordering the road is bold and striking , rising in black pyramidal masses , in many places chiselled with ...
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... edifice , forming an extensive court ; but this is now partly destroyed . On the outside of the enclosure , as about the rocks of Silsilis , we find a great number of silk trees . To the south of the lofty eminence on which the ruins ...
... edifice , forming an extensive court ; but this is now partly destroyed . On the outside of the enclosure , as about the rocks of Silsilis , we find a great number of silk trees . To the south of the lofty eminence on which the ruins ...
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... edifice that classical majestic appearance which distinguishes it from the ordinary temples of the country . On the columns , thirteen of which are still standing , the ornament most frequently repeated is the cobra di capello , in ...
... edifice that classical majestic appearance which distinguishes it from the ordinary temples of the country . On the columns , thirteen of which are still standing , the ornament most frequently repeated is the cobra di capello , in ...
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... edifice of the age of the Ptolemies ; the re- mainder was certainly erected at a subsequent period . One of the stones on the roof measured twenty- three feet in length and five in breadth . In the chamber next the adytum , Isis and ...
... edifice of the age of the Ptolemies ; the re- mainder was certainly erected at a subsequent period . One of the stones on the roof measured twenty- three feet in length and five in breadth . In the chamber next the adytum , Isis and ...
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... edifice is surrounded by a lofty wall , sculptured and adorned like the cella . Standing on the northern extremity of this inclosure , I beheld with admiration the immense length and noble proportions of the pile , still nearly perfect ...
... edifice is surrounded by a lofty wall , sculptured and adorned like the cella . Standing on the northern extremity of this inclosure , I beheld with admiration the immense length and noble proportions of the pile , still nearly perfect ...
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Popular passages
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...