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Near them , on the sand , 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
...
Near them , on the sand , 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
...
Page 68
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 timetable is 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 timetable is 68 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
Page 80
... a ladder down the ages . And far beyond , the inexorable desert billows in
heaps of glistening sand . Many have praised the view from the Mokhattam , yet
no one has praised it enough . The most that can be said is less than half the
reality .
... a ladder down the ages . And far beyond , the inexorable desert billows in
heaps of glistening sand . Many have praised the view from the Mokhattam , yet
no one has praised it enough . The most that can be said is less than half the
reality .
Page 90
... 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 90 EGYPTIAN
DAYS.
... 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 90 EGYPTIAN
DAYS.
Page 116
Zeus might , at his amorous need , turn himself into the form of some beast , but
the Greek artist would never portray him as half man and half brute . Egypt ,
however , came to represent all her gods in that way , and very awful some of
them ...
Zeus might , at his amorous need , turn himself into the form of some beast , but
the Greek artist would never portray him as half man and half brute . Egypt ,
however , came to represent all her gods in that way , and very awful some of
them ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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