Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... Half sunk , a shatter'd visage lies , whose frown And wrinkl'd lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive , stamp'd on these lifeless things , The hand that mock'd them , and the ...
... Half sunk , a shatter'd visage lies , whose frown And wrinkl'd lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive , stamp'd on these lifeless things , The hand that mock'd them , and the ...
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... . Two hours and a half daily it is impassable , owing to the necessity of opening the draw for the passage of the river traffic ; and to one living in the Ghezireh district , a familiarity with the bridge time- table 68 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... . Two hours and a half daily it is impassable , owing to the necessity of opening the draw for the passage of the river traffic ; and to one living in the Ghezireh district , a familiarity with the bridge time- table 68 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
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... half the reality . To realize it in its full grandeur one must simply go to it and see with one's own eyes . A part of the difficulty in seeking to describe such a view as that from the summit of the Mokhattam arises from the subtle ...
... half the reality . To realize it in its full grandeur one must simply go to it and see with one's own eyes . A part of the difficulty in seeking to describe such a view as that from the summit of the Mokhattam arises from the subtle ...
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... real they are , these emperors of the long ago ! We who have come to think of Agamemnon as half mythical are brought face to face with those brave men who were before Agamemnon , who lived before Troy's towers rose , or 90 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... real they are , these emperors of the long ago ! We who have come to think of Agamemnon as half mythical are brought face to face with those brave men who were before Agamemnon , who lived before Troy's towers rose , or 90 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
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... half man and half brute . Egypt , however , came to repre- sent all her gods in that way , and very awful some of them appear . Various forms of special crowns were employed by the sculptors to go with each god , as well as numer- ous ...
... half man and half brute . Egypt , however , came to repre- sent all her gods in that way , and very awful some of them appear . Various forms of special crowns were employed by the sculptors to go with each god , as well as numer- ous ...
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Abydos Amenhotep Amenhotep III Ammon Ammon-Ra ancient appears Arabs Assiut Assuan backsheesh bank bazaars Beni Hassan body building Cairo camel carved cemetery chapel Cheops Citadel cliffs colossi columns Copts court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Greek Hassan Hatasu Hathor Horus huge hypostyle hall impressive Isis Karnak Khephrên king KOM OMBO land later lofty Luxor magnificent massive mastaba mastaba tomb Memphis midst miles modern Mohammed monarchs monument mortuary mosque Mouski mummy native Nile once Osiris passed Pharaoh Philæ Professor Ptolemaic pylon pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum Raschid ride river rock ruin sacred Sakkâra sands seems seen Seti shrine side sort sowaheen Sphinx spot steamer stone street Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship