 | 1850 - 704 pagina’s
...find no outlet. Then again, all was reburied, and I was standing on the grass-covered mound. * w * * The lofty cone and broad mound of Nimroud broke like...scene since my former visit ! The ruins were no longer covered with verdure and many-coloured flowers; no sign of habitation, not even the black tent of the... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 400 pagina’s
...a copy. (See note in chap, x \i. of Sale's Koran for a story somewhat similar to that in the text.) dawned ; he had returned with six Arabs, who agreed...The ruins were no longer clothed with verdure and many-colored flowers ; no signs of habitation, not even the black tent of the Arab, was seen upon the... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 408 pagina’s
...a copy. (See note in chap. zzi. of Sale's Koran for a story somewhat similar to that in the text.) dawned ; he had returned with six Arabs, who agreed...work under my direction. The lofty cone and broad rnound of Nimroud broke like a distant mountain on the morning sky. But how changed was the scene since... | |
 | 1849 - 472 pagina’s
...Awad, I rose from my carpet, and jointti him outside the hovel. The day already dawned. He had relumed with six Arabs, who agreed for a small sum to work under my directions. Then commenced the exciting research. Awad, Mr. Layard's Arab host at the hovel, had his... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1850 - 470 pagina’s
...the tales to this day repeated by the * This and similar traditions are found in a work called Kussct el Nimroud, (Stories of Nimrod,) which Rich represents...scene since my former visit ! The ruins were no longer cLlLod with verdure and many-coloured flowers ; no signs of habitation, not even the black tent of... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1850 - 384 pagina’s
...floated before me. After forming plan after plan for removing the earth, and extricating these^reasures, I fancied myself wandering in a maze of chambers from...the morning sky. But how changed was the scene since ny former visit ! The ruins were no longer clothed with verdure and many-colored flowers ; no signs... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1850 - 380 pagina’s
...a copy. (See note in chap. xxi. of Sale's Koran for a story somewhat similar to that in the text.) dawned ; he had returned with six Arabs, who agreed...the morning sky. But how changed was the scene since ny former visit ! The ruins were no longer clothed with verdure and many-colored flowers ; no signs... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 556 pagina’s
...active and faithful. We will let Mr. Layard himself describe the commencement of his labours next day. "The lofty cone and broad mound of Nimroud broke like...distant mountain on the morning sky. But how changed since my former visit ! The ruins were no longer clothed with verdure and many colored flowers ; no... | |
 | sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 pagina’s
...the night, to Selamiyah, a village three miles distant, and to some Arab tents in the neighborhood, to procure men to assist in the excavations. I had...changed was the scene since my former visit ! The rums were no longer clothed with verdure and many-colored flowers ; no signs of habitation, not even... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1852 - 414 pagina’s
...have been forgotten, had my brain been less excited. Hopes, long cherished, were now to be realized, or were to end in disappointment. Visions of palaces...The ruins were no longer clothed with verdure and many-colored flowers ; no signs of habitation, not even the black tent of the Arab, were seen upon... | |
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Hopes, long cherished, were now to be realised, or were to end in disappointment. Visions of palaces under-ground, of gigantic monsters, of sculptured figures, and endless inscriptions, floated before me. After forming plan after plan for removing the... 
