 | 1842 - 592 pàgines
...altar before it, in a grove of trees winch grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacied thing: in the solemn stillness of the woods it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people. The onlv sounds that disturbed the quiet of this buried city, -were the noiw of monkevs moving among... | |
 | 1817 - 364 pàgines
...vines and creepers ; and one standing, with its altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around, seemingly to shade and shroud it, as a sacred thing...seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people." (") Page 49. Corinna, a Theban lady, was once adjudged to have overcome in verse her countryman, the... | |
 | John Lloyd Stephens - 1841 - 506 pàgines
...to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship equal to the finest monuments of the....it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people. The only sounds that disturbed the quiet of this buried city were the noise of monkeys moving among... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 pàgines
...to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship, equal to the finest monuments of the...seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people." " We returned to the base of the pyramidal structure, and ascended by regular stone steps, in some... | |
 | 1841 - 470 pàgines
...to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship equal to the finest monuments of the...it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people. The only sounds that disturbed the quiet of this buried city were the uoiee of monkeys moving among... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 600 pàgines
...to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship, equal to the finest monuments of the...seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people." " We returned to the base of the pyramidal structure, and ascended by regular stone steps, in some... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pàgines
...character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanSee Notices. VOL. I.—35 ship equal to the finest monuments of the Egyptians; one...it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people. The only sounds that disturbed the quiet of this buried city were the noise of monkeys moving among... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1841 - 534 pàgines
...the finest monuments of the Egyptians ; one displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots ; an, other locked in the close embrace of branches of trees,...it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people. The only sounds that disturbed the quiet of this buried city were the noise of monkeys moving among... | |
 | 1842 - 648 pàgines
...to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship equal to the finest monuments of the...it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people. The only sounds that disturbed the quiet of this buried city were the noise of monkeys moving among... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pàgines
...to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship equal to the finest monuments of the...it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people. The only sound that disturbed the quiet of this buried city, were the noise of monkeys moving among... | |
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Egyptians ; one displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots ; another locked in the close embrace of branches of trees, and almost lifted out of the earth ; another hurled to the ground, and bound down by huge vines and creepers; and one standing, with... 
