| Nigel Leask - 2002 - Počet stránok 338
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| Brian Fagan - 2004 - Počet stránok 324
...the temples of Karnak and Luxor. He waxed lyrical over the temples and statuary: "It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their former temples as the only proof of their former existence."4 Belzoni soon crossed to the west bank... | |
| Stanley Mayes - 2006 - Počet stránok 372
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| Charles Bucke - 2007 - Počet stránok 408
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| Frederick Monderson - 2007 - Počet stránok 204
...when he arrived at Thebes and observed the temples of Luxor and Karnak, He wrote: '"It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their former temples as the only proof of their former existence,'" By 1828 Champollion copied inscriptions... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1836 - Počet stránok 788
...magnificence of which has been commemorated by several travellers. ' It appeared to me,' says Belzoni, Mike entering a city of giants, who, after a long ' conflict,...come into my bedroom. ' e'Shams, Effende ; e'Shams, Effende' — The sun, sir, the sun ; as he was always reproved if he called me long after sunrise.... | |
| 1821 - Počet stránok 670
...formed from the most splendid specimen* of our present architecture. " It appeared to me," he says, "like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...as the only proofs of their former existence." The groves of palm trees which are scattered over the ground, are far overtopped by the columns, the colossi,... | |
| 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 596
...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 traveller at once one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
| 1823 - Počet stránok 568
...short, distance from 'the hundred-gated city.' His approach to those stupendous remains seemed to be ' like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...temples as the only proofs of their former existence.' But the FEBRUARY, 1823. — NO 250. 16 122 Selzoni's Egypt and Nubia. colossal bust which he had undertaken... | |
| 1821 - Počet stránok 602
...convey but a faint idea of the whole, it appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after i, long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins...as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of (he most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
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