 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.  The Eclectic Review - Էջ 165խմբագրել է - 1836Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1824 - 494 էջ
...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 existence." Nothing, we think, can be more animating than the following description of one of the temples of this... | |
 | 1824 - 604 էջ
...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 conflict,...as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur. The... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 էջ
...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 conflict,...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.... | |
 | 1821 - 602 էջ
...construction, that even the pencil can convey but a taint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict,...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.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 էջ
...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 conflict,...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.... | |
 | 1821 - 598 էջ
...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, who, after a long conflict,...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.... | |
 | 1821 - 746 էջ
...conjecture how they could be brought thither. Of the ruins of Thebes he says, — " it appeared to me like , Nothing, we think, can be more animating than the following description of one of the temples of this... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 էջ
...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 conflict,...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.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 էջ
...construction, that ev«n the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to we like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict,...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.... | |
 | 1824 - 436 էջ
...impossible to imagine the scene displayed ; it seemed to me like entering a city of giants, who had been all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various...temples as the only proofs of their former existence. As I entered these ruins, my first thought was to examine the colossal bust I had to take away ; I... | |
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