The Glory of the PharaohsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923 - 338 pages |
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... dead . The spells have no potency until they are pronounced : the lists of Kings of Egypt have no more than an accidental value until they call before the curtain of the mind those monarchs themselves . It is the business of the ...
... dead . The spells have no potency until they are pronounced : the lists of Kings of Egypt have no more than an accidental value until they call before the curtain of the mind those monarchs themselves . It is the business of the ...
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... dead atmosphere about it which sets him yawning as only his grave yawned before . The charm has been taken from his deeds ; there is no longer any spring in them . He must feel towards the archæologist much as a young man feels towards ...
... dead atmosphere about it which sets him yawning as only his grave yawned before . The charm has been taken from his deeds ; there is no longer any spring in them . He must feel towards the archæologist much as a young man feels towards ...
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... dead flowers ; to contemplate the love of women whose beauty is perished in the dust ; to hearken to the sound of the harp and the sistra ; to be the posses- sor of the riches of historical romance . Dim armies have battled around him ...
... dead flowers ; to contemplate the love of women whose beauty is perished in the dust ; to hearken to the sound of the harp and the sistra ; to be the posses- sor of the riches of historical romance . Dim armies have battled around him ...
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... dead will not reveal their secrets , nor will the crumbling pediments of naos and cenotaph , the obliterated tombstones , or the worm - eaten parchments , tell us their story . To- night , however , we are privileged ! for Professor ...
... dead will not reveal their secrets , nor will the crumbling pediments of naos and cenotaph , the obliterated tombstones , or the worm - eaten parchments , tell us their story . To- night , however , we are privileged ! for Professor ...
Page 32
... dead . Be the explanation what it may , the fact is indis- putable that archæology is patronised by those who know not its real meaning . A man has no more right to think of the people of old as dust and dead bones than he has to think ...
... dead . Be the explanation what it may , the fact is indis- putable that archæology is patronised by those who know not its real meaning . A man has no more right to think of the people of old as dust and dead bones than he has to think ...
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Abu Simbel adventure Akhnaton Amarna Amenophis Amenophis III amidst Amon Amon-Ra amongst ancient Egypt ancient Egyptians antiquities archæologist Arthet Arthur Weigall Assiout Aswân Aton beautiful body bones Byblos Cairo Museum cliffs colour dancing dead death desert Egyp Egypt Egyptologist Elephantine excavation eyes feel flowers gods hand heart hills Horemheb imagination inscriptions island King land living look Lord Lower Nubia manner ment mind modern monuments mummies native night Nile nobles objects officer once palace passed past peasants perhaps Pharaoh picture present priests prince Queen Tiy Rameses Rameses II realise records regarded reign river robbers rocks ruins sand seems seen ship song stones stood story tell temple Theban Thebes thee things thou thought tion tomb treasure Tunip Tutankhamon Upper Egypt valley walls watch Wawat Wenamon wind words
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Page 281 - The highest hopes we cherish here, How fast they tire and faint ; How many a spot defiles the robe That wraps an earthly saint...
Page 45 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Page 89 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 92 - Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams.
Page 164 - When thou hast raised them up. Their limbs bathed, they take their clothing, Their arms uplifted in adoration to thy dawning. (Then) in all the world they do their work.
Page 324 - Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon, and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves.
Page 154 - Are you sure that the bones you sent me are those which were found in the tomb ? Instead of the bones of an old woman, you have sent me those of a young man. Surely there is some mistake.
Page 324 - ... for as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those the most remote from it?
Page 121 - Come, spend this festival day And to-morrow and the day after to-morrow . . Sitting in my shadow. Thy companion sits at thy right hand, Thou dost make him drink, And then thou dost follow what he says . . . I am of a silent nature And I do not tell what I see I do not chatter.
Page 164 - ... flourish, The birds flutter in their marshes, their wings uplifted in adoration to Thee. All the sheep dance upon their feet, all winged things fly, They live when Thou hast shone upon them.