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" And now there came out of this building a form, human, — was it human? It stood on the broad way and looked around, beheld me and approached. It came within a few yards of me, and at the sight and presence of it an indescribable awe and tremor seized... "
The Novels of Lord Lytton: Kenelm Chillingly. The coming race - Page 276
by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897
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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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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 Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 116 pages
...the acanthus, so the capitals of these columns imitated the foliage of the vegetation neighbouring them, some aloelike, some fern-like. And now there...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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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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The Pilgrims of the Rhine to which is Prefixed The Ideal World: The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1892 - 454 pages
...the acanthus, so the capitals of these columns imitated the foliage of the vegetation neighbouring them, some aloelike, some fern-like. 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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Novels, Volume 30

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1892 - 458 pages
...the acanthus, so the capitals of these columns imitated the foliage of the vegetation neighbouring them, some aloelike, some fern-like. 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 Coming Race

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - 1967 - 154 pages
...neighbouring them, some aloe-alike, some fern-like. And now there came out of this building a form—human ;—was it human ? It stood on the broad way and looked...on 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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Die Selbstkritik der Utopie in der angloamerikanischen Literatur

Hans Ulrich Seeber - 2003 - 316 pages
...Durchschnittsmenschen einen Schauder aus, den Burke für die Begegnung mit dem Erhabenen reklamiert: "It came within a few yards of me, and at the sight...presence of it an indescribable awe and tremor seized me, [...]" (The Coming Race, 1870). Holberg befürchtet, wie vor ihm schon More, ein durch Ineffizienz...
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