 | Juvenal - 1873 - Počet stránok 274
...sentence of Belzoni's expresses this effect : "It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who afier a long conflict were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proof of their former existence." rnpted by the Greeks into Bubastis, and identified by them with Artemis.... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - Počet stránok 870
...and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - Počet stránok 868
...proud, to cringe for votes, and coax the fickle crowd." — Ilovet. tKtilh. " Thebes appeared tome like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the mins as the only proofs of their former existence."— Btltoni, b Ps. Ixrvill. 63 ; Je. vii. 80; Am.... | |
 | 1877 - Počet stránok 814
...and construction, that eveu the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...temples as the only proofs of their former existence." After pausing with wonder before the two colossal figures in the plain, he proceeded to examine the... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1879 - Počet stránok 348
...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, who, after a long...destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as •BELZONE. the only proof of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1880 - Počet stránok 980
...specimens of our present architecture would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as ihe only proofs of their former existence.' The most celebrated of these structures is now universally... | |
 | Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - Počet stránok 984
...of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving ruins of their various temples, as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor,"... | |
 | 1882 - Počet stránok 410
...Belzoni was so struck with the appearance of some of the buildings that he said, " It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proof of their former existence." It was not simply the height of the buildings that called forth the... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1885 - Počet stránok 602
...Eelzoui, thus records his first impressions on finding himself amidst them :—" It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their temples ns the only proof of their former existence." In antiquity, Thebes must yield to Abydos, Herraonthis,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - Počet stránok 578
...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, who, after a long...as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveler at once one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
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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. 
