Tales of TravelGeorge H. Doran Company, 1923 - 381 pages The drums of Kairwan -- The Amir of Afghanistan -- The voice of Mennon -- The falls of the Zambesi -- The great waterfalls of the world -- "Lest we forget." I. The death-bed of Sir Henry Lawrence. II. The billiard table of Napoleon -- The palaestra of Japan -- Pages from a diary -- Humours of travel -- The singing sands. |
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Page 112
... Wilkinson has pointed out that Miamun was a title of Rameses II . , whose great palace- temple at Thebes , now usually called the Rames- eum , is probably the Memnonium of Strabo , and whose other temple at Abydus is called Mem- nonium ...
... Wilkinson has pointed out that Miamun was a title of Rameses II . , whose great palace- temple at Thebes , now usually called the Rames- eum , is probably the Memnonium of Strabo , and whose other temple at Abydus is called Mem- nonium ...
Page 121
... Wilkinson , in a paper read before the Royal Society of Literature in London , on December 18 , 1833 , in his Topog- raphy of Thebes ( 1835 ) , in his Modern Egypt and Thebes ( 1843 ) and in the earlier editions of Murray's Handbook to ...
... Wilkinson , in a paper read before the Royal Society of Literature in London , on December 18 , 1833 , in his Topog- raphy of Thebes ( 1835 ) , in his Modern Egypt and Thebes ( 1843 ) and in the earlier editions of Murray's Handbook to ...
Page 122
... Wilkinson then related that in the year 1824 , when he first tested the musical stone , the nature of the sound did not appear to tally with the account given by ancient authors ; but that in 1830 , having noticed the phrase as of ...
... Wilkinson then related that in the year 1824 , when he first tested the musical stone , the nature of the sound did not appear to tally with the account given by ancient authors ; but that in 1830 , having noticed the phrase as of ...
Page 123
... Wilkinson , in the above passage , started with the assumption , which he clearly expected to carry conviction to every mind , that the priests were at the bottom of the pre- tended miracle , and then proceeded to fit into it , first ...
... Wilkinson , in the above passage , started with the assumption , which he clearly expected to carry conviction to every mind , that the priests were at the bottom of the pre- tended miracle , and then proceeded to fit into it , first ...
Page 124
... Wilkinson is the only one who really made the ascent . If , however , his account of its existing condition , and the inferences which he is thereby led to draw , can be shown to be incorrect , any adventitious importance accruing to ...
... Wilkinson is the only one who really made the ascent . If , however , his account of its existing condition , and the inferences which he is thereby led to draw , can be shown to be incorrect , any adventitious importance accruing to ...
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Abdur Rahman Khan Afghan Afghanistan Amir Amir Abdur Rahman Amir's appeared Arab beach billiard British British Guiana called cataract causes chasm cliffs courtiers described desert distance drums Durbar Egypt Emperor England face famous favour feet high figure frontier Government Graec grains ground Hadrian head heard height hill horses hour India Insc inscriptions islands Jebel Nakus Kabul Kairwan Khagan King Kukenam later London Lord Majesty Memnon ment miles mosque motion mountain Musical Sand native natural NEJEF never Niagara night noise occasion passed Pausanias persons phenomenon plunge present produced Reg-i-Ruwan remarkable resembling river rock Roraima Russian sand-grains sand-hill sand-slope scene seen sheikh side Singing Sands slope sonorous spot statue stone Strabo Suleiman Khan summit sunrise Thebes throne thunder tion travellers vibration Victoria Falls visitor vocal walls waterfalls Wilkinson wind Zambesi
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Page 139 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 23 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Page 100 - Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Page 392 - ... rains. By virtue of these films, the sand-grains become separated by elastic cushions of condensed gases, capable of considerable vibration, and whose thickness we have approximately determined. The extent of the vibration and the volume and pitch of the sound thereby produced...
Page 161 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 101 - Golden his hair of short Numidian curl, Regal his shape majestic, a vast shade In midst of his own brightness, like the bulk Of Memnon's image at the set of sun To one who travels from the dusking East: Sighs, too, as mournful as that Memnon's harp He utter'd, while his hands contemplative He press'd together, and in silence stood.
Page 231 - Take her up tenderly — Lift her with care! Fashioned so slenderly — Young, and so fair!
Page 120 - In the lap of the statue is a stone, which, on being struck, emits a metallic sound, that might still be. made use of to deceive a visitor, who was predisposed to believe its powers...
Page 301 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood...
Page 120 - ... be made use of to deceive a visitor, who was predisposed to believe its powers ; and from its position, and the squared space cut in the block behind, as if to admit a person who might thus lie concealed from the most scrutinous observer in the plain below, it seems to have been used after the restoration of the statue ; and another similar recess exists beneath the present site of this stone, which might have been intended for the same purpose when the statue was in its mutilated state.