 | 1818 - 606 pages
...which cover the eastern wing of the propylon of the temple of Luxor, observes, ' It was impossible to view and to reflect upon a picture so copious and...this I have just described, without fancying that I here saw the original of many of Homer's battles, the portrait of some of the historical narratives... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pages
...which cover the eastern wing of the propylon of th6 temple of Luxor, observes, ' It was impossible to view and to reflect upon a picture so copious and...this I have just described, without fancying that I here saw the original of many of Homer's battles, the portrait of some of the historical narratives... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...which cover the eastern wing of the propylon of the temple of Luxor, observes, ' It was impossible to view and to reflect upon a picture so copious and so detailed as this 1 have just described, without fancying that I here saw the original of many of Homer's battles, the... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...which cover the eastern wing of the propylon of the temple of Luxor, observes, ' It was impossible to view and to reflect upon a picture so copious and...this I have just described, without fancying that I here saw the original of many of Homer's battles, the portrait of some of the historical narratives... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1827 - 384 pages
...which cover the eastern wing of the propylon of the temple of Luxor, observes, ' It was impossible to view and to reflect upon a picture so copious and...this I have just described, without fancying that I here saw the original of many of Homer's battles, the portrait of some of the historical narratives... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Egyptian Antiquities - 1832 - 440 pages
...his treasures, and where the servants prepare a feast to celebrate his victory. " It was impossible to view and to reflect Upon a picture so copious and...Herodotus, and one of the principal ground-works of the descriptions of Diodorus: and, to complete the gratification, we felt that had the artist been better... | |
 | George Long - 1832 - 446 pages
...chariots,— Hamilton, and where the servants prepare a feast to celebrate hisyietory. " It was impossible to view and to reflect upon a picture so copious and...Herodotus, and one of the, principal ground-works of the descriptions of Diodorus : and, to complete the gratification, we felt that had the artist been better... | |
 | George Long - 1832 - 442 pages
...chariots.— Hamilton. and where the servants prepare a feast to celebrate his victory. " It was impossible to view and to reflect upon a picture so copious and...narratives of Herodotus, and one of the principal ground- works of the descriptions of Diodorus : and, to complete the gratification, we felt that had... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1832 - 514 pages
...occupies the pages of the Greek authors who have described the exploits of the Egyptian hero. " It was impossible," says Mr Hamilton, " to view and to reflect...this I have just described, without fancying that we saw here the original of many of Homer's battles, the portrait of some of the historical narratives... | |
 | 1867 - 826 pages
...Hamilton says that he fancied he saw here " the originals of many of Homer's battles, the portraits of some of the historical narratives of Herodotus,...principal groundworks of the description of Diodorus." The younger Champollion deciphered the inscriptions and discovered that the whole picture is connected... | |
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I saw here the original of many of Homer's battles, the portrait of some of the historical narratives of Herodotus, and one of the principal ground-works of the... 
