The Fayoum: Or, Artists in EgyptH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 298 стор. |
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... buildings , heaped together by the marvellous perspective which enabled us to see them all at once , the variety of their dimen- sions , the unspeakable elegance of their Saracenic architecture , those oblong cupolas of almost Persian ...
... buildings , heaped together by the marvellous perspective which enabled us to see them all at once , the variety of their dimen- sions , the unspeakable elegance of their Saracenic architecture , those oblong cupolas of almost Persian ...
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... buildings , in order to be sure that we were not the dupes of some hallucination . The first mosque which we approached , of that interminable succession in which each is more beauti- ful than the preceding , was the mosque of El ...
... buildings , in order to be sure that we were not the dupes of some hallucination . The first mosque which we approached , of that interminable succession in which each is more beauti- ful than the preceding , was the mosque of El ...
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... building . This niche is not placed haphazard ; it corresponds with the direction of Mecca , and it is from thence that the sheik of the mosque chants the languorous psalmodies of the morning prayer , or drones out the Koran . The ...
... building . This niche is not placed haphazard ; it corresponds with the direction of Mecca , and it is from thence that the sheik of the mosque chants the languorous psalmodies of the morning prayer , or drones out the Koran . The ...
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... buildings which decorate the tombs of the Mamelouks , so well do taste and ele- gance supply the place of the mathematical propor- tions of a purely massive and rude building . In 1 QUANTITY AND QUALITY . 39 Persia and at Athens 38 ...
... buildings which decorate the tombs of the Mamelouks , so well do taste and ele- gance supply the place of the mathematical propor- tions of a purely massive and rude building . In 1 QUANTITY AND QUALITY . 39 Persia and at Athens 38 ...
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... buildings . These Mussulman Mousque- taires , doubtless , were connoisseurs of painting and collectors of Japanese curiosities . We re - entered Cairo by the gate Bab - el - Karaph , and crossed the Karamisdan , a sort of Champ de Mars ...
... buildings . These Mussulman Mousque- taires , doubtless , were connoisseurs of painting and collectors of Japanese curiosities . We re - entered Cairo by the gate Bab - el - Karaph , and crossed the Karamisdan , a sort of Champ de Mars ...
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