 | 1824 - 494 pages
...lie says, — " it appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, \rere all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various...temples as the only proofs of their former existence." Nothing, we think, can be more animating than the following description of one of the temples of this... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...they had a sight of the ruins of Thebes, and landed at Luxor. " It appeared to me," says Belzoni, " like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pages
...and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
 | 1821 - 602 pages
...and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a taint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pages
...and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a i'aint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 pages
...and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pages
...and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...temples as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller at once one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian grandeur.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long...temples, as the only proofs of their former existence. The temple of Luxor presents to the traveller, at once, one of the most splendid groups of Egyptian... | |
 | 1824 - 436 pages
...impossible to imagine the scene displayed ; it seemed to me like entering a city of giants, who had been all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various...temples as the only proofs of their former existence. As I entered these ruins, my first thought was to examine the colossal bust I had to take away ; I... | |
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It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence. 
