 | Alexander William Kinglake - Middle East - 1845 - 450 pages
...from infancy up to its mature enormity, could plainly be traced at Sakkara. CHAP. XX. THE SPHYNX. AND near the Pyramids, more wondrous, and more awful than...all else in the land of Egypt, there sits the lonely Sphynx. Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not of this world ; the once worshipped beast... | |
 | United States - 1845 - 648 pages
...Pyramids, more wondrons, nnd more awful than all else in the land of Reypt, there sits the loneiy Sphynx. Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not...world ; the once worshipped beast is a deformity and « monster to this generation, and yet yon can see that those lips, so thick and heavy, were fashioned... | |
 | 1849 - 514 pages
...singularly chaste author of Eothen, in the following sentiment. Speaking of the Sphynx he says — " Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not...: the once worshipped beast is a deformity, and a mons4er of this generation , anil ^eV you can see that those lips, so thick and heavy, were fashioned... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...we give entire, it is so beautiful and brief : — " And near tho Pyramids, more woudrous and moro awful than all else in the land of Egypt, there sits the lonely Sphynx. Comely the creature is. but tho comeliness is not of this world; the once worshipped boast... | |
 | 1849 - 586 pages
...strange mysterious beauty awful in its stillness — you stand before her in awe and reverence." " Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not of this world — the eyes are sad and earnest, and the mien is tranquil." Now I am no iconoclast: I always look for beauty... | |
 | Edward MacDermott - Great Exhibition - 1854 - 236 pages
...sentiments to which its contemplation gave rise in his mind: — And near the pyramids, more numerous and more awful than all else in the land of Egypt, there rests the lonely sphynx. Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not of this world : the once... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1856 - 596 pages
...harmonizing with the sandy hills and plains around it, are noble and beautiful to look upon. Eöthen says : "Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not of this world. The once worshiped beast is a deformity and a monster to this generation ; and yet you can see that those lips,... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - Middle East - 1864 - 348 pages
...infancy up to its mature enormity could plainly be traced at Sakkara. CHAPTER XX. THE SPHYNX, A ND near the Pyramids, more wondrous, and -*- *- more...all else in the land of Egypt, there sits the lonely Sphynx. Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not of this world ; the once worshipped beast... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Newell - 1865 - 80 pages
...not my intention, — (Unless the girls take me by force.) THE EGYPTIAN SPHYNX. Near the Pyramids, more awful than all else in the land of Egypt, there sits the lonely Sphynx. Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not of this world; the once worshipped beast... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - Children's literature - 1866 - 808 pages
...the original article from the banks of the Nile — which Mr. Kinglake, the historian, describes as "more wondrous and more awful than all else in the land of Egypt" — had been bodily transported to that cosey little room, or not, I don't know ; but what they did... | |
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AND near the Pyramids, more wondrous, and more awful than all else in the land of Egypt, there sits the lonely Sphynx. Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not of this world ; the once worshipped beast is a deformity, and a monster to this generation,... 
