| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 sider
...Osiris, I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. I was buried for y as. — What is all this worth? Nor those other...on all its ample folds as they float over the sea with such amazement at the monstrous scenery, that horror seemed absorbed for a while in sheer astonishment.... | |
| Samuel Davey - 1879 - 302 sider
...they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. Thousands of years I lived, and was buried in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes in narrow...was kissed with cancerous kisses by crocodiles, and was laid confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud." De Quincey lived... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 sider
...a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. I was buried for a thousand yours, Svo, and Tiinckerayann, Lond., 1875, cr. 8vo. ; &lections from the CorrtRpondence of the Late J/« 1 was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles, and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy... | |
| Alexander Hay Japp - 1879 - 416 sider
...say, at which the ibis and the crocodile tremble; he is buried for a thousand years in stone coflins with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. Anon there dawns upon him a day—aa he expresses it in his solemnly impassioned manner —" a day... | |
| H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1881 - 830 sider
...drunk with the poison he craved night and day? " I was buried for a thousand years in stone cofnns, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the...laid confounded with all unutterable slimy things, among reeds and Nilotic mud!" What is this key which seems for a time to unlock the gates of heaven... | |
| English dictation - 1881 - 156 sider
...their applause, not to his integrity or sense, but to the quantities of his beef and brandy. XXXVIII. I thus give the reader some slight abstraction of my oriental dreams, which always filled me with such amazement at the monstrous scenery, that horror seemed absorbed for a while in sheer astonishment.... | |
| 1882 - 684 sider
...upon Isis and Osiris. I had done a deed, they said, that made the crocodiles tremble. I was buried for a thousand years in stone coffins, with mummies and...at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed with the cancerous kiss of crocodiles, and lay confounded with unutterable slimy things among wreathy and... | |
| Anglo-Indian - 1882 - 110 sider
...fulness and pro"that 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, with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud." Or, "My dream was of billows of... | |
| 1882 - 684 sider
...done a deed, they said, that made the crocodiles tremble. I was buried for a thousand years in •tone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes in narrow chambers...at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed with the cancerous kiss of crocodiles, and lay confounded with unutterable slimy things among wreathy and... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1885 - 338 sider
...Osiris : I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. I was buried for a thousand years in stone coffins, with mummies and...abstraction of my Oriental dreams, which always filled me with such amazement at the monstrous scenery, that horror seemed absorbed, for a while, in sheer astonishment.... | |
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