Egypt Past and Present: Described and Illustrated : with a Narrative of Its Occupation by the British, and of Recent Events in the SoudanT. Nelson and Sons, 1885 - 380 ページ |
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adytum afterwards Alexandria Amun Amun-Ra Amunophis ancient antiquity Arab Assouan Athor bank beauty Cairo capital Cataract chamber Champollion chief town Christian Cleopatra colossal statues columns crocodile Dean Stanley dedicated deity Desert dromos dynasty east Eastern Egypt Egyptian erected Ethiopian eyes feet 6 inches feet broad feet high feet in height feet long figures Ghizeh Girgeh gods granite Greek Harriet Martineau Heliopolis Herodotus hewn hieroglyphics honour Horus Isis island Karnak Khartûm kings Kneph land Libyan Luxor Manetho Medinet-Aboo Memphis Meroë miles Miss Martineau monuments mummy mysterious Napata Nile Nubia Oasis obelisks Osiris painted palace palm Pasha Pharaoh Philae pillars portico priests principal pronaos propylon Ptolemy Pyramid Rameseion Rameses Rameses II Ramessid reign river rock Roman roof ruins sacred sanctuary sand sarcophagus sculptured side Soudan sphinxes stands stone Suakim Suez symbols temple Thebaid Thebes Thothmes tion tombs traveller valley voyage Wady Halfa walls waters Wilkinson worship
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114 ページ - Translation Thus do they, sir: they take the flow o' the Nile By certain scales i' the Pyramid; they know By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if death Or prison follow,
342 ページ - dynasty of kings. CHAPTER III. GEBEL-ADHA—WADY HALFA — THE SECOND CATARACT— THE TEMPLE OF SOLEB—MEROE, AND ITS ANTIQUITIES —RUINS AT NAJA AND EL-MESAOURAT—THE SACRED BOAT. Wild and desolate Those courts, where once the mighty sate; Nor longer on those mouldering towers Were seen the past of fruits and flowers Neither priest nor rites were there. Moore. j|N the cliff, nearly opposite
205 ページ - SIOUT —GIRGEH—DENDERA, AND ITS TEMPLE. Monarchs—the powerful and the strong— Famous in history and in song Of olden time. Longfellow. A reverend pile, With bold projections and recesses deep. Wordsworth.
178 ページ - What was the object of the cell or apartment in which he found himself? " Whatever it might be," he says, " I certainly considered myself in the centre of that Pyramid which, from time immemorial, had been the subject of the obscure conjectures of many hundred travellers, both ancient and modern. My torch, formed of a few wax candles, gave
236 ページ - 22 feet 4 inches across the shoulders, and 14 feet 4 inches from the neck to the elbow. The toes are from 2 to 3 feet long. The whole mass is composed of Syene granite ; and I offer it as a problem to engineers and
139 ページ - and the more remarkable white muslin veil,—which universal out-of-door costume of Egyptian ladies only suffered two dark eyes to gleam from behind the hideous shroud. And if the carriages we saw, continues our authority, had a smack of Europe, they were driven and
352 ページ - the pillars are decorated with figures in the Egyptian style; others in the same portico are fluted like the Grecian : on the base of one seemed discernible the traces of a zodiac. Time and the elements seem to have been willing to spare to us the observatory of Meroe. It excites one's wonder to discover so few hieroglyphics in this mass of ruins; the six
214 ページ - TOMB ^INTERIOR,. We have here, says Miss Martineau,—and we shall freely avail ourselves of her animated description,*—the art of writing as a familiar practice, in the scribes who are numbering the
273 ページ - AND ITS QUARRIES—KOUM OMBOS. Et viridem Aegyptum nigra faecundat arena, Et diversa ruens septem discurrit in ora. Virgil, Georgics, iv. 200. And where the stream . . . Broods o'er green Egypt with dark wave of mud, And pours through many a mouth its branching flood.
186 ページ - stupendous in the sight of that enormous head—its vast projecting wig, its great ears, its open eyes, the red colour still visible on its