Wintering in Egypt
Wintering in Egypt
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149 earth seemed joined to sky, and we realised as never before the vastness of that huge tomb of which the top reaches indeed to heaven, and which is a monument produced alike by vanity, and by the needs of the soaring ambition of the soul of man.
For onceall seemed real, and wecould almost imagine we were standing by the scene in the days of the old monarchy, when these vast tombs that were to be sealed for ever, had just been made. We forgot for the time the rubbish heaps of sand, and the ab...omina- tion of desolation which is so apparent by day, and the sense of unfitness, and the vulgarity of tourists, and the knowledge that the past can never return. How are the mighty fallen. Here were once buried in solemn state the greatest of earth-born monarchs ; their tombs even then beat the record, and were constructed with enormous toil and labour ; around them, and adjacent to them, in tombs cut out of the solid rock, and of enormous depth and size, were as a high privilege allowed to be buried the bodies of their relations, their ministers, their obsequious retainers and hangers-on ; there they were laid to rest, the mighty, the proud, the learned, the high-born of the world ; now their graves are ruins, and their coffins are gone, for only the dryness of an unusual atmosphere, and the sheltering cover of the drifting sand have brought it about that even these ruins remain.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
149 earth seemed joined to sky, and we realised as never before the vastness of that huge tomb of which the top reaches indeed to heaven, and which is a monument produced alike by vanity, and by the needs of the soaring ambition of the soul of man.
For onceall seemed real, and wecould almost imagine we were standing by the scene in the days of the old monarchy, when these vast tombs that were to be sealed for ever, had just been made. We forgot for the time the rubbish heaps of sand, and the ab...omina- tion of desolation which is so apparent by day, and the sense of unfitness, and the vulgarity of tourists, and the knowledge that the past can never return. How are the mighty fallen. Here were once buried in solemn state the greatest of earth-born monarchs ; their tombs even then beat the record, and were constructed with enormous toil and labour ; around them, and adjacent to them, in tombs cut out of the solid rock, and of enormous depth and size, were as a high privilege allowed to be buried the bodies of their relations, their ministers, their obsequious retainers and hangers-on ; there they were laid to rest, the mighty, the proud, the learned, the high-born of the world ; now their graves are ruins, and their coffins are gone, for only the dryness of an unusual atmosphere, and the sheltering cover of the drifting sand have brought it about that even these ruins remain.
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