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" It came within a few yards of me, and at the sight and presence of it an indescribable awe and tremor seized me, rooting my feet to the ground. It reminded me of symbolical images of Genius or Demon that are seen on Etruscan vases or limned on the walls... "
The Pilgrims of the Rhine to which is Prefixed The Ideal World: The Coming Race - Page 258
by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1892 - 392 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 110

1871 - 880 pages
...beheld me, and approached. It oame within a few yarls of me, and at the eight and presence of it nn indescribable awe and tremor seized me, rooting my...that are seen on Etruscan vases, or limned on the walla of Eastern sepulchres — images that borrow the outlines of man, and are yet of another race....
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The Nation, Volume 6; Volume 13

1871 - 570 pages
...land, and, perhaps, his apparition is as good, effective, and truthful as anything in the volume. " And now there came out of this building a form —...on Etruscan vases or limned on the walls of Eastern sepulcures — images that borrow the outlines of man, and are yet of another nee. It was tall, not...
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The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1871 - 308 pages
...great rock. I should have supposed it at the first glance to have been of the earliest form of Egyptian architecture. It was fronted by huge columns, tapering...on the walls of Eastern sepulchres — images that borrow the outlines of man, and are yet of another race. It was tall, not gigantic, but tall as the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 110

1871 - 818 pages
...which he finds himself, sees a structure before him recalling the massiveness of Egyptian architecture. "And now there came out of this building a form —...Etruscan vases, or limned on the walls of Eastern sepulchres—images that borrow the outlines of man, and are yet of another race. It was tall, not...
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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

william blackwood - 1871 - 810 pages
...beheld me, and approached. It came within a few yards of me, and at the sight and presence of it au lD ;4]p # { v - C\ % )C y< %'@ 6y xE g D _;; 1 ߬ 8 ( 0D k% J Fo 8 q symlmlical images of Genius or Demon that are seen on Ktruscan vases, or limned on the walls of Eastern...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 18; Volume 70

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1872 - 542 pages
...of this building a form — human ; — was it human ? It stood on the broad way and looked round, beheld me, and approached. It came within a few yards...on the walls of Eastern sepulchres — images that borrow the outlines of man, and are yet of another race. It was tall, not gigantic, but tall as the...
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The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 116 pages
...great rock. I should have supposed it at the first glance to have been of the earliest form of Egyptian architecture. It was fronted by huge columns, tapering...the ground. It reminded me of symbolical images of Genins or Demon that are seen on Etruscan vases or limned on the walls of Eastern sepulchres — images...
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The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1882 - 318 pages
...of the acanthus, so the capitals of these columns imitated the foliage of the vegetation neighboring them, some aloe-like, some fernlike. And now there...on the walls of Eastern sepulchres — images that borrow the outlines of man, and are yet of another race. It was tall, not gigantic, but tall as the...
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The wit and wisdom of Edward Bulwer, lord Lytton, selected by C. Kent

Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1883 - 442 pages
...landscape at noon, but the air less oppressive, the heat softer. — The Coming Race, 16. The Vril-ya. There came out of this building a form — human ;...on the walls of Eastern sepulchres — images that borrow the outlines of man, and are yet of another race. It was tall, not gigantic, but tall as the...
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English Language and Literary Criticism: English prose

James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...massiveness ri-niiuds him of the architecture of ancient And now there came out of this building a form — a human ; — was it human ? It stood on the broad way...me, rooting my feet to the ground. It reminded me of the symbolical images of Genius or Demon that are seen on Etruscan vases, or limned on the walls of...
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