 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...dexterous as Apollo, and equal in battle to any ten of the race of ordinary mortals. The conqueror gazed with satisfaction and wonder on the strange...he shattered with his iron mace or battle-axe the under-jaw of one of these monsters, which, in the eye of the Turks, were the idols or talismans of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 338 pages
...dexterous as Apollo, and equal in battle to any ten of the ordinary race of mortals. The conqueror gazed with satisfaction and wonder on the strange...appearance of the domes and palaces, so dissimilar to the style of Oriental architecture. In the hippodrome or atmeidan, his eye was attracted by the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 338 pages
...satisfaction and wonder on the strange though splendid appearance of the domes and palaces, so dissimilar to the style of Oriental architecture. In the hippodrome or atmeidan, his eye was attracted by the famous twisted column of the three serpents ; and, as a trial of his strength, he shattered with his... | |
 | Muḥammad (the prophet.) - 1799 - 202 pages
...dexterous as Apollo, and equal in battle to any ten of the race of ordinary mortals. The conqueror gazed with satisfaction and wonder on the strange,...as a trial of his strength, he shattered, with his own mace, or battle-axe, the under jaw of one of these monsters, which, in the eye of the Turks, were... | |
 | 1857 - 924 pages
...city which he could not defend, and Mohammed II. entered Constantinople in triumph. " The Conqueror gazed with satisfaction and wonder on the strange,...Atmeidan, his eye was attracted by the twisted column of three serpents ; and, as a trial of his strength, he shattered, with his iron mace or battle-axe, the... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1851 - 760 pages
...dexterous as Apollo, and equal in battle to any ten of the race of ordinary mortals. The conqueror gazed with satisfaction and wonder on the strange,...style of oriental architecture. In the hippodrome or atmeidun, his eye was attracted by the twisted column of the three serpents, and, as a trial of his... | |
 | 1851 - 770 pages
...dexterous as Apollo, and equal in battle to any ten of the race of ordinary mortals. The conqueror gazed with satisfaction and wonder on the strange,...style of oriental architecture. In the hippodrome or almeidan, his eye was attracted by the twisted column of the three serpents, and, as a trial of his... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 pages
...dexterous as Apollo, and equal in battle to any ten of the race of ordinary mortals. The conquerorj gazed with satisfaction and wonder on the strange...he shattered with his iron mace, or battle-axe, the uiider-jaw of one of these monsters, § which, in the eyes of the Turks, were the c. 17). * See Ducas... | |
 | Matthew Bridges - 1855 - 594 pages
...had so recently been celebrated before the last of the Constantines. In the Atmeidan his eye had been attracted by the twisted column of the three serpents;...a trial of his strength he shattered with his iron battle-axe the under jaw of one of these monsters, which the Turks imagined to be the idols or talismans... | |
 | William Martin - 1856 - 352 pages
...the domes and palaces of the Latins. In the hippodrome, his eye was attracted by the twisted columns of the three serpents, and, as a trial of his strength,...mace or battle-axe, the under jaw of one of these monsters which, in the eye of the Turks, were the idols or talismans of the city. At the principal... | |
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He was attended by his viziers, bashaws, and guards, each of whom (says a Byzantine historian) was robust as Hercules, dexterous as Apollo, and equal in battle to any ten of the race of ordinary mortals. The conqueror gazed with satisfaction and wonder... 
