 | Thomas De Quincey - 1900 - 264 Seiten
...trem- 15 bled at. I was buried, for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphynxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids....kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst 20 reeds and Nilotic mud. I thus give the... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 420 Seiten
...which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. I was buried, for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies, and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at...kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles ; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, among reeds and Nilotic mud. I thus give the reader... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1902 - 456 Seiten
...the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. Thousands of years I lived and was buried in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the...unutterable abortions, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud." Upon this and similar passages of richly wrought, fantastically colored, chanting prose, De Quincey's... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 Seiten
...which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. I was buried for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the...kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud. I thus give the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 704 Seiten
...Piranesi's Dreamt, be tells how he fancied he was " buried for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids, etc." — Editor » Note, 1893.] indulged. Wealth is worshipped in France as the means of purchasing... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 710 Seiten
...describing Piranesis Dreams, he tells how he fancied he was " buried for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids, etc. —Editor's Note, 1893.] indulged. AVealth is worshipped in France as the means of purchasing... | |
 | William Edward McLaren - 1904 - 232 Seiten
...crocodile trembled at. I was buried for a thousand years in stone coffins, with mummies and sphynxes, in narrow chambers, at the heart of eternal pyramids....confounded with all unutterable abortions, amongst rude and Nilotic mud." Compare this sparkling imbecility, this incoherent death-song of one who walked... | |
 | 1904 - 1048 Seiten
...infinite, my mind tossed and surged with the ocean. I was buried, for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers, at...was kissed with cancerous kisses by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, among reeds and Nilotic mud. On stopping the drug,... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1905 - 410 Seiten
...the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. Thousands of years I lived and was buried in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the...unutterable abortions, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud." Upon this and similar passages of richly colored, chanting prose, De Quincey's fame as a writer rests.... | |
 | Joseph Jastrow - 1905 - 586 Seiten
...said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. I was buried for a thousand years in stone coffins with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the...kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles ; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud." In addition to... | |
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Seeva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris : I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. 
