Rameses; an Egyptian Tale: with Historical Notes of the Era of the Pharoahs |
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... light , when Sabacon and Rameses sought a shelter from its glorious but overpowering beams in their favourite resort upon the borders of the Nile . It was constructed upon a vast and solid mound overhanging the stream , and at the ...
... light , when Sabacon and Rameses sought a shelter from its glorious but overpowering beams in their favourite resort upon the borders of the Nile . It was constructed upon a vast and solid mound overhanging the stream , and at the ...
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... light within , spoken to by some unknown but powerful divinity , always restrained him from the contaminations of vice ; and the counsels of his friend and counsellor , the learned Phritiphanes , were scarcely needed to show the ...
... light within , spoken to by some unknown but powerful divinity , always restrained him from the contaminations of vice ; and the counsels of his friend and counsellor , the learned Phritiphanes , were scarcely needed to show the ...
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... light on earth , or breathe its grosser air ; but when the awful cycle has re- volved , which measures off so great a part of earth's progressive course , the heavenly visitant prepares to recreate again its radiant form ; and now pre ...
... light on earth , or breathe its grosser air ; but when the awful cycle has re- volved , which measures off so great a part of earth's progressive course , the heavenly visitant prepares to recreate again its radiant form ; and now pre ...
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... lights and murmurs of a town on the bank settling into repose , nothing interrupted their deep and so- lemn silence . The agitation of their Father's sum- mons , with the fatigue and excitement of prepara- tion , had kept the brothers ...
... lights and murmurs of a town on the bank settling into repose , nothing interrupted their deep and so- lemn silence . The agitation of their Father's sum- mons , with the fatigue and excitement of prepara- tion , had kept the brothers ...
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... light around , almost instantaneously the glorious sun fixed its orb upon the full horizon ! It seemed the approach of a god ; and every heart paid its ho- mage to his beams . On either side of the stream , spreading beyond the reach of ...
... light around , almost instantaneously the glorious sun fixed its orb upon the full horizon ! It seemed the approach of a god ; and every heart paid its ho- mage to his beams . On either side of the stream , spreading beyond the reach of ...
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adorned Amenophis amid animal appeared arms army Athor augury awful bands banks beams Betis bird Bocchoris bright brother Bubastis Buto character court crowded cubits danger darkness death deep deity despatched displayed divine dread earth Egypt Egyptian emblem enemies Euterpe evil eyes father favour feelings floating flowed foes gateway glory goddess gods gold golden grandeur granite Habu heart heavenly Hermaic Herodotus hieroglyphic honour horror Horus immense instant instantly Isis Karnak king lotos Luxor magnificent Medinet Habu Memnon Memphian Memphis mighty mind Mizraim Mnevis monarch Myris mysteries mystic night Nile Nitocris noble numerous obelisks Osiris palace Pallic passed peristyle Phritiphanes pillars Plutarch Poubasti priesthood priests queen race Rameses rites robes royal Sabacon sacred Salatis scene sculptured shining shone slave solemn Sosis soul splendid spread stream symbol temple Thebes thought tion trial troops Typhon valour vast vessels walls warriors waters whence wherein wings youth
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Page 130 - CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! 1 Mrs.
Page 151 - First an all-potent all-pervading sound Bade flow the waters — and the waters flow'd, Exulting in their measureless abode, Diffusive, multitudinous, profound, Above, beneath, around; Then o'er the vast expanse primordial wind Breath'd gently, till a lucid bubble rose, Which grew in perfect shape an Egg refin'd : Created substance no such lustre shows, Earth no such beauty knows. Above the warring waves it danc'd elate, Till from its bursting shell with lovely state A form cerulean flutter'd o'er...
Page 320 - The first generation of men in Egypt, contemplating the beauty of the superior world, and admiring with astonishment the frame and order of the universe, imagined that there were two chief Gods, eternal and primary, the Sun and Moon, the first of whom they called Osiris, the other Isis.
Page 133 - Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. 19 Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Page 320 - ... our approbation, they have a song, which is also used in Phoenicia, Cyprus and other places, where it is differently named. Of all the things •which astonished me in Egypt, nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians learned this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks; it is of the remotest antiquity among them, and they call it Mañeros.
Page 300 - Egyptian plain (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars 505 From each wide portal issuing to the wars...
Page 318 - ... they call the houses of the living, inns, because they stay in them but a little while; but the sepulchres of the dead they call everlasting habitations, because they abide in the graves to infinite generations.
Page 321 - Having thoroughly purified him (an aspirant), the hierophant now discloses to the initiated a region all over illuminated and shining with a divine splendour. The cloud and thick darkness are dispersed, and the mind, which before was full of disconsolate obscurity, now emerges, as it were, into day, replete with light and cheerfulness, out of the profound depth into which it had been plunged.'— See Bishop Warburton on Mysteries.
Page 322 - But this scene once over, a miraculous and divine light displays itself, and shining plains, and flowery meadows, open on all hands before them.
Page 150 - Th' impenetrable gloom of light intense, Impervious, inaccessible, immense, Ere spirits were infus'd or forms display'd, BREHM his own Mind survey'd, As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze: Swift, at his look, a shape supremely fair Leap'd into being with a boundless blaze, . That fifty suns might daze. Primeval MAYA was the Goddess nam'd, Who to her sire, with Love divine inflam'd, A casket gave with rich Ideas fill'd, From which this gorgeous Universe he...