Egypt and Its MonumentsCentury Company, 1908 - 272 σελίδες |
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Abydos Amenhotep III beauty beneath bird blue brown Cairo calm Cappella Palatina chamber charm color Colossi COLOSSI OF MEMNON court crocodiles cupolas dark dead Deir-el-Bahari delicate Denderah desert doorway dream Egypt Egyptian exquisite eyes face feel gleaming glory goddess gold golden granite gray happy Hathor Hatshepsu heart hidden Horus hypostyle halls Isis Karnak Khuns king Kom Ombos Kurna land light looked lotus columns Loulia lovely marvelous Medinet-Abu mighty minaret mosque mountains mummy mystery night Nile Nubia obelisk Ombos once Osiris painted pale peace perfect perhaps Pharaoh's Bed Philæ pillars prayer prays PYLON Pyramid Queen Rameses Rameses III Ramesseum river roof ruins sacred sanctuary sands seems Seti shrine silence singing smiling soul Sphinx spirit stands statues stereograph stone stood strange sunshine surely TEMPLE OF EDFU Thebes things thinking place to-day tombs Underwood & Underwood voices walls wonderful worship yellow
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Σελίδα 80 - God is great! I bear witness that there is no god but God! I bear witness that there is no god but God!
Σελίδα 121 - Lay of the Harper" which is inscribed upon the tombs of Thebes — those tombs under those gleaming mountains : For no one carries away his goods with him; Yea, no one returns again who has gone thither.
Σελίδα 140 - After the terrific masculinity of Medinet-Abu, after the great freedom of the Ramesseum, and the grandeur of its colossus, the manhood of all the ages concentrated in granite, the temple at Deir-el-Bahari came upon me like a delicate woman, perfumed and arranged, clothed in a creation of white and blue and orange, standing — ever so knowingly — against a background of orange and pink, of red and...
Σελίδα 145 - Ramesseum, and the grandeur of its colossus, the manhood of all the ages concentrated in granite, the temple at Deir-el-Bahari came upon me like a delicate woman, perfumed and arranged, clothed in a creation of white and blue and orange, standing — ever so knowingly — against a background of orange and pink, of red and brown-red, a smiling coquette of the mountain, a gay and sweet enchantress who knew her pretty powers and meant to exercise them.
Σελίδα 127 - ... inordinate vanity prolong the true triumph of genius, and impress its own view of itself upon the minds of millions. This Rameses is believed to be the Pharaoh who oppressed the children of Israel. As I sat in the Ramesseum that morning, I recalled his face — the face of an artist and a dreamer rather than that of a warrior and oppressor; Asiatic, handsome, not insensitive, not cruel, but subtle, aristocratic, and refined. I could imagine it bending above the little serpents of the sistrum...
Σελίδα 22 - All this does not matter at all. What does matter is that into the conception and execution of the Sphinx has been poured a supreme imaginative power. He who created it looked beyond Egypt, beyond the life of Man. He grasped the conception of Eternity, and realized the nothingness of Time, and he rendered it in stone. I can imagine the most determined atheist looking at the Sphinx and, in a flash, not merely believing, but feeling that he had before him proof of the life of the soul beyond the grave.
Σελίδα 22 - ... mouth is legal; that from certain places it bears a resemblance to a prize bulldog. All this does not matter at all. What does matter is that into the conception and • execution of the Sphinx has been poured a supreme imaginative power. He who created it looked beyond Egypt, beyond the life of man. He grasped The Woman's Medical Journal the conception of Eternity, and realized the nothingness of Time, and he rendered it in stone. PROFESSOR JAMES
Σελίδα 140 - Place for Queen Hatshepsu! Surely she comes to a sound of flutes, a merry noise of thin, bright music, backed by a clashing of barbaric cymbals, along the corridors of the past ; this queen who is shown upon Egyptian walls dressed as a man, who is said to have worn a beard, and who sent to the land of Punt the famous expedition which covered her with glory and brought gold to the god Amun. To me most feminine she seemed when I saw her temple at Deir-el-Bahari, with its brightness and its suavity...
Σελίδα xviii - ... if they would truly and intimately understand the treasure of romance that lies heaped within her bosom. Thoth, says the old legend, traveled in the Boat of the Sun. If you would love Egypt rightly, you, too, must be a traveler in that bark. You must not fear to steep yourself in the mystery of gold, in the mystery of heat, in the mystery of silence that seems softly showered out of the sun. The sacred white lotus must be your emblem, and Horus, the hawkheaded, merged in Ra, your special deity....