| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 482 páginas
...heroes and himself is foretold and influenced, as has often been remarked, by the figure of Eblis : His person was that of a young man, whose noble and...hair retained some resemblance to that of an angel of lisht. This is no Oriental figure ; Eblis, in Beckiord's original, has a bristly head of hair and beard... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 484 páginas
...often been remarked, by the figure of Eblis : His person was that of a young man, whose noble ancj regular features seemed to have been tarnished by...hair retained some resemblance to that of an angel of lisrht. This is no Oriental figure ; Eblis, in Becluord's original, has a bristly head of hair and... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 páginas
...heroes and himself is foretold and influenced, as has often been remarked, by the figure of Eblis : His person was that of a young man, whose noble and...retained some resemblance to that of an angel of light. This is no Oriental figure ; Eblis, in Beckford's original, has a bristly head of hair and beard ;... | |
| Carl Van Vechten - 1926 - 310 páginas
...by Negresses, mutes, and serpents, and the wondrous halls of Eblis where that subterranean monarch ("a young man, whose noble and regular features seemed to have been tarnished by malignant vapours; in whose large eyes appeared both pride and despair; whose flowing hair retained some semblance to that... | |
| Marcel May - 1928 - 454 páginas
...mali« gnant vapours ; in his large eyes « appeared both pride and des« pair, his flowiiig haïr retained « some resemblance to that of « an angel of light ; in his harid « which thunder had blasted he « swayed thé iron sceptre... Vathek, p. 226. Quant au long... | |
| E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 páginas
...the ascent of a lofty eminence; on the top of which, upon a globe of fire, sat the formidable Eblis. His person was that of a young man, whose noble and...hand, which thunder had blasted, he swayed the iron sceptre that causes the monster Ouranbad, the afrits, and all the powers of the abyss to tremble. At... | |
| William Beckford - 2001 - 404 páginas
...the ascent of a lofty eminence; on the top of which, upon a globe of fire, sat the formidable Eblis. His person was that of a young man, whose noble and...pride and despair: his flowing hair retained some semblance to that of an angel of light. In his hand, which thunder had blasted, he swayed the iron... | |
| Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - 2003 - 592 páginas
...the chief of the evil spirits in Arabian legend, by Beckford, in his "Vathek." Eblis seemed in person that of a young man whose noble and regular features seemed to have been tarnished by malignant vapors. In his large eyes appeared both pride and despair; his flowing hair retained some semblance... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1786 - 504 páginas
...vapours. In his large eyes appeared both pride, and deipair : his flowing hair retained fome refemblance to that of an angel of light. In his hand, which thunder had blalted, he fwayed the iron fceptre, that caufes the moniler Ouranabad, the Afrits, and all the powers... | |
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