Up the Nile, and Home Again: A Handbook for Travellers and a Travel-book for the LibraryChapman and Hall, 1862 - 448 Seiten |
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Up the Nile, and Home Again: A Handbook for Travellers and a Travel-Book for ... Frederick William Fairholt Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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Alexandria ancient Egyptians antiquities Arab Arabian Assouan backsheesh bank bazaar beauty birds boatmen boats building built Cairo carried centre chambers character Christian cliffs coloured constructed covered crocodiles crowded curious dahabeah decorated Dendera desert distance donkeys dragoman Egypt English engraving entire European feet Fostat fragments Ghizeh Girgeh Greek heavy Herodotus hieroglyphic hills houses inhabitants inscriptions interest Karnac labour land look Luxor Malta Marseilles mass miles minarets Minieh mode mosque mountains mummies native Nile Nilometer Nubian obtained occasionally once ornament pass passengers peasant persons picturesque pillars plain Plate Pompey's Pillar Pyramids remarkable river rock Roman roof rude ruins sacred sand says scene sculptured seen shadoof Sheikh side Siout sometimes Sphinx square stone stranger stream streets temple Thebes tion tombs town traveller trees Upper Egypt vast vessel village Vincent Brooks visitor voyage walls Wilkinson wind
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 364 - Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Seite 76 - And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile and sit in the seats of the Faithful...
Seite 100 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Seite 75 - Laugh and mock if you will at the worship of stone idols, but mark ye this, ye breakers of images— that in one regard the stone idol bears awful semblance of Deity — unchangefulness in the midst of change, the same seeming will and intent for ever and ever inexorable. Upon ancient dynasties of Ethiopian and Egyptian kings, upon Greek and Roman, upon Arab and Ottoman conquerors, upon Napoleon dreaming of an Eastern empire...
Seite 76 - Upon ancient dynasties of Ethiopian and Egyptian kings — upon Greek and Roman, upon Arab and Ottoman conquerors — upon Napoleon dreaming of an Eastern empire — upon battle and pestilence — upon the ceaseless misery of the Egyptian race — upon keen-eyed travelers — Herodotus yesterday, and Warburton to-day — upon all and more this unworldly Sphinx has watched, and watched like a Providence with the same earnest eyes, and the same sad, tranquil mien.
Seite 369 - I add my own vain efforts at description to those that have preceded me, it is not in any hope of conveying a true impression to the reader. All round us towered up vast masses of gloomy rocks, piled one upon the other in the wildest confusion; some of them, as it were, skeletons of pyramids; others requiring only a few strokes of giant labour to form colossal statues that might have startled the Anakim. Here spreads a deep drift of silvery sand, fringed by rich verdure and purple blossoms; there...
Seite 74 - Sphinx that Thebes erewhile laid waste, But great Latona's servant mild and bland ; Watching that prince beloved who fills the throne Of Egypt's plains, and calls the Nile his own.. That heavenly monarch [who his foes defies], Like Vulcan powerful [and like Pallas wise].
Seite 280 - Room, as we found? the carcase of a bull in it, embalmed with asphaltum ; and also, scattered in various places, an immense quantity of small wooden figures of mummies six or eight inches long, and covered with asphaltum to preserve them. There were some other figures of fine earth baked", coloured blue, and strongly varnished. On each side of the two little rooms were...
Seite 395 - Vathek audience in, receives you in passing from the flaming sunshine into that shadowy portal. It is some time before the eye can ascertain its dimensions through the imposing gloom, but gradually there reveals itself, around and above you, a vast aisle, with pillars formed of eight colossal giants, upon whom the light of heaven has never shone.
Seite 310 - ... and disappeared. The ziczac, to my increased admiration, proud apparently of having saved his friend, remained walking up and down, uttering his cry, as I thought, with an- exulting voice, and standing every now and then on the tips of his toes in a conceited manner, which made me justly angry with his impertinence.