Daleth: Or, The Homestead of the Nations. Egypt IllustratedTicknor and Fields, 1864 - 289 pages |
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Other editions - View all
Daleth, Or, the Homestead of the Nations: Egypt Illustrated Edward Lord Clark No preview available - 2016 |
Daleth, Or the Homestead of the Nations: Egypt Illustrated Edward L. Clark No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
adorned Amenti amid ancient Arabs Athor banks beauty beneath Beni Hassan Berenice beside birds boat broken Cairo ceiling chambers chariot colonnade colors columns dark desert doors dust Ecbatana Edfoo Egyp Egypt Egyptian Erieus Ethiopia feet flowers gardens gates gateway gathered gods gold golden graceful granite Greek green hand Heliopolis Herodotus hills Horus houses hundred Isis Karnak king land learning lifted light look Luxor Memphis miles mosques mountains moved mummies mystery nation Nile obelisk Osiris paintings palace passed Pharaoh Philæ pillars plain priests Ptolemies Pyramids queen Rameses Rameses II raoh rich rises river robes Roman royal rude ruins sacred sand sarcophagus says servants shadoof shadow Shishak shore shouts side silent slaves smile sound Sphinx splendor stand stars statues stone streets Syene temple Thebes thousand tombs Typhon valley vases voice walls weary wonder worship
Popular passages
Page 79 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 229 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Page 75 - Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue; In vain with cymbals...
Page 201 - The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
Page 229 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, Lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
Page 233 - Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Page 229 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations ! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Page 250 - Christ makes thorough work ; for his fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather the wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Page 231 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall : and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 210 - O'erthrew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the pyramids with fear and wonder When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder...