Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte in that Country; and Published Under His Immediate Patronage, Volume 2Heard and Forman, 1803 - 307 pagina's |
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Pagina 113 - Still temples, nothing but temples ! and not a vestige of the hundred gates so celebrated in history ; no walls, quays, bridges, baths, or theatres ; not a single edifice of public utility or convenience ! Notwithstanding all the pains which I took in the research, I could find nothing but temples, walls covered with obscure emblems and hieroglyphics, which attested the ascendency of the priesthood, who still seemed to reisrn over these mighty ruins, and whose empire constantly haunted my imagination.
Pagina 130 - Immediately previous to the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, we find that the price of pepper in the markets of Europe had fallen to 6s.
Pagina 76 - Saracens, it is true, have done all in their power to deface or to conceal them ; but, as Denon remarks, the Egyptian monuments continue devoted to posterity, and have resisted equally the ravages of man and of time. In the midst of a vast field of bricks, and other pieces of baked earth, a very ancient temple is still left standing, surrounded with a pilastered gallery and two columns in the portico. Nothing is wanting but two pilasters on the left angle of this ruin. Other edifices had been attached...
Pagina 77 - Elephantine is, that the figures have more life, the drapery is more flowing, and falls into a better form of composition.* The fascination attending this review of the monuments of ancient art has perhaps carried us somewhat farther than is quite consistent with our plan, which compels us to abstain from minute details, however interesting and agreeable. There is no other nation in the world, if we except those on the eastern...
Pagina 152 - Nothing can be more grand, and at the same time more simple, than the small number of objects of which this entrance is composed. No city whatever makes so proud a display at its approach as this wretched village, the population of which consists of two or three thousand souls, who have taken up their abodes on the roofs and beneath the galleries of this temple, which has, nevertheless, the air of being in a manner uninhabited.
Pagina 51 - ... raised them to the rank of gods, by laws which have been revered without being promulgated, by science involved in pompous and enigmatical inscriptions, the first monuments of ancient learning which are still spared by the hand "of time \ this abandoned sanctuary, surrounded with barbarism, and again restored to the desert from which it had been drawn forth, enveloped in the veil of mystery...
Pagina 12 - ... in their own defence, for want of being able to explain their object, and to make themselves understood. — O war ! thou art brilliant in history, but frightful when viewed with all thy attending horrors, naked, and undisguised. On the 28th we skirted the edge of the desert, which was bordered by a succession of villages. In spite of the cold which we felt during the night, the heat of the day, and the productions...
Pagina 185 - I HAD often heard speak of the Kamsin, which may be termed the hurricane of Egypt and the Desert ; it is equally terrible by the frightful spectacle which it exhibits when present, and by the consequences which follow its ravages. We had already passed with security one half of the season in which it appears, when in the evening of the...
Pagina 48 - ... presented themselves before me. I was ashamed at representing such sublime objects by such imperfect designs, but I wished to preserve some memorial of the sensations which I here experienced, and I feared that Tentyra would escape from me for ever ; so that my regret equalled my present enjoyment. I had just discovered, in a small apartment, a celestial planisphere, when the last rays of daylight made me perceive that I was alone here, along with my kind and obliging friend General Beliard,...
Pagina 45 - A series of years might, indeed, have brought the arts to a higher degree of perfection in some particulars; but each temple is so equally finished in all its parts, that they appear all to have been executed by the same hand; no one portion is better or worse than any other; there appears neither negligence nor the bold strokes of a more exalted genius ; uniformity and harmony prevail throughout. The art of sculpture, here made subservient and attached to that of architecture, appears to have been...