| 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... | |
| 1842 - 574 pàgines
...fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, r.nd some in workmanship equal to the finest monuments...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 - 508 pàgines
...America were not savages. With an interest perhaps stronger than we had ever felt in wandering among the ruins of Egypt, we followed our guide, who, sometimes...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 - 600 pàgines
...America were not savages. With an interest perhaps stronger than we had ever felt in wandering among the ruins of Egypt, we followed our guide, who, sometimes...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... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 pàgines
...America were not savages. With an interest perhaps stronger than we had ever felt in wandering among the ruins of Egypt, we followed our guide, who, sometimes...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
...not savages. With an interest perhaps stronger than we had ever felt in wandering amnng the ruins ef Egypt, we followed our guide, who, sometimes missing...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... | |
| John L. Stephens - 1841 - 532 pàgines
...stronger than we had ever felt in wandering among the ruins of Egypt, we followed our THE RUINS. 103 guide, who, sometimes missing his way, with a constant...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... | |
| 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... | |
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