 It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.  Juvenalis Satirae notes - Strana 239podľa Juvenal - 1875 - Počet stránok 252Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 494
...was at loss to conjecture how they could be brought thither. Of the ruins of Thebes lie says, — " it appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, \rere all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former... | |
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 604
...they had a sight of the ruins of Thebes, and landed at Luxor. " It appeared to me," says Belzoni, " like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller one of the most splendid... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - Počet stránok 566
...form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants,...leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 598
...form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a i'aint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants,...leaving the ruins" of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 602
...torm, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a taint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants,...leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 746
...was at a loss to conjecture how they could be brought thither. Of the ruins of Thebes he says, — " ,Cradock, and Joy" ' ,t John" John Scott ' ,on....twiet which makes ( ,ifficult in me to fa(( ,he pros proofs of their former existence." Nothing, we think, can be more animating than the following description... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - Počet stránok 602
...form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants,...leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - Počet stránok 486
...form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants,...leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - Počet stránok 474
...form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants,...leaving the ruins of their various temples, as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller, at once, one of the... | |
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