 | 1824 - 494 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur. The extensive propylcon, with the two obelisks,... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pàgines
...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...of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur. The extensive propylaeon, with the two obelisks, and colossal statues in the front; the thick groups... | |
 | 1821 - 602 pàgines
...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, who, after a long...of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur. The extensive propylaeon, with the two obelisks, and colossal statues in the front; the thick groups... | |
 | 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 pàgines
...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...of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur. The extensive propyteon, with the two obelisks, and colossal statues in the front ; the thick groups... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pàgines
...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, who, after a long...of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur. The extensive propylason, with the two obelisks, and colossal statues in the front ; the thick groups... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pàgines
...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...of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur. . TJp extensive propylason, with the two obelisks, and colossal statues in the front ; the thick groups... | |
 | 1824 - 436 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - 1828 - 314 pàgines
...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 conflict...leaving the ruins of their various temples as the proof of their existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one bf the most splendid... | |
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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. 
