Fruits of enterprize exhibited in the travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia, by the author of The India cabinet1824 |
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A.-Belzoni A.-They A.-When Ababde amused ancient aperture appeared Arabs arrived Assouan Bashaw beautiful Beban el Malook Bedouins Belzoni Berenice BERNARD BERNARD.-I BERNARD.-What boat Boolac bust Cacheff Cairo Caliud camels Carnac Cataract colossal Copts dare say dear mamma delightful desert door Egypt Egyptians embarked EMILY EMILY.-I entered enterprizing entrance Esne feet formed Gournou gratified ground Hamed Aga hieroglyphics hope Khalil Bey land Laura Luxor machine Mahomed mamma Memnon morning mother mountains mummy cave night Nile Nubia obelisk OWEN OWEN.-I palm-leaf ropes palm-trees papa passage piastres pillars Pompeii Pompey's pillar proceeded procure pyramid reached rocks ruins sand sarcophagus Scheik seated second Cataract side Soubra spot stones suppose tell temple Thebes thing thought told tomb traveller Turks valley of Beban village Wady Halfa whilst wished Ybsambul young Memnon zoni Zubara
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Page 179 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 93 - Every part of these rocks is cut out by art, in the form of large and small chambers, each of which has its separate entrance ; and, though they are very close to each other, it is seldom that there is any interior communication from one to another.
Page 29 - ... city on this side. The unrivalled colossal figures in the plains of Thebes, the number of tombs excavated in the rocks, those in the great valley of the kings, with their paintings, sculptures, mummies, sarcophagi, figures, &c. are all objects worthy of the admiration of the traveller ; who will not fail to wonder how a nation, which was once so great as to erect these stupendous edifices, could so far fall into oblivion, that even their language and writing are totally unknown to us.
Page 97 - ... me with horror. The blackness of the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described.
Page 106 - I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child.
Page 102 - Besides enamelling, the art of gilding was m high perfection among the Egyptians, as Belzoni found several ornaments of that kind. They knew how to cast copper, as well as how to form it into sheets; and had a metallic composition not unlike our lead, but rather softer. OWEN. — Very much like the lead we see on paper, in the tea-chests from China, I suppose, mamma ? Emily once had some of it, with the Chinese pictures, from which she wished to copy the figures for the screens. MRS. A. — Yes,...
Page 76 - I put a sack filled with sand, that, if the colossus should run too fast into the boat, it might be stopped. In the ground behind the colossus I had a piece of a palm-tree firmly planted, round which a rope was twisted, and then fastened to its car, to let it descend gradually.
Page 197 - The pedestal has been somewhat damaged by the instruments of travellers, who are anxious to possess a relic of this antiquity ; and one of the volutes of the column was immaturely brought down a few years ago by the ingenuity of some English captains.
Page 190 - It is difficult to form a correct idea of a desert, without having been in one : it is an endless plain of sand and stones, sometimes intermixed with mountains of all sizes and heights, without roads or shelter, without any sort of produce for food. The few scattered trees and shrubs of thorns, that only appear when the rainy season leaves some moisture, barely serve to feed wild animals, and a few birds.