... sight, impressed 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... The Edinburgh annual register - Página 3551823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Johonnot - 1882 - 446 páginas
...and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that can not be described. In such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what... | |
| 1902 - 532 páginas
...around me seeming to converse with each other; and the Arabs with the torches or candles in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling...such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting, until at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1928 - 266 páginas
...not its least merit. I quote from the pamphlet Belzoni's account of his penetrations among the tombs. But what a place of rest! surrounded by bodies, by...exhausted, fainting and nearly overcome, I sought a resting place, and found one, my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, and it crushed like a band-box.... | |
| Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1991 - 482 páginas
...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...absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described. [Quoted in Hamilton-Paterson and Andrews, pp. 185-86] 55 Yeats, "All Soul's Night" and "Supernatural... | |
| Brian Fagan - 2004 - 324 páginas
...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...mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described.5 One eventually became inured to the dust and mummies. It helped if, like Belzoni, one had... | |
| 1821 - 602 páginas
...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...such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what... | |
| 1823 - 434 páginas
...candles or torches in their hands naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, formed a scene that cannot be described. In .such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting; till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 596 páginas
...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...li-ving mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot he described. In such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting,... | |
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