 | Literature - 1901 - 622 pages
...confusion ; here the choirs and dances were heard no longer, the lisrht which glimmered came from afar. person was 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 resemblance... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...random, unheedful of the rest, as if alone on a desert where no foot had trodden. by malignant vapors. In his large eyes appeared both pride and despair...retained some resemblance to that of an angel of light." Eblis received his visitors with courtesy. " Creatures of clay," he said, " I receive you into mine... | |
 | Cora Linn Morrison Daniels - Folklore - 1903 - 592 pages
...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... | |
 | Martha Pike Conant - Literary Criticism - 1908 - 352 pages
...impressive description of Vathek's reception by "the formidable Eblis" enthroned upon the globe of fire. "His person was that of a young man, whose noble and...of light ; in his hand, which thunder had blasted, he swayed the iron scepter that causes the monster Ouranabad, the Afrits, and all the powers of the... | |
 | Martha Pike Conant - English fiction - 1908 - 352 pages
...impressive description of Vathek's reception by "the formidable Eblis" enthroned upon the globe of fire. "His person was that of a young man, whose noble and...of light ; in his hand, which thunder had blasted, he swayed the iron scepter that causes the monster Ouranabad, the Afrits, and all the powers of the... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...ascent of a lofty eminence, on the top of which, upon a globe of fire, sat so the formidable Eblis. t our pains. This place St. Bruno chose to retire to, and upon its very t @D, vapors; in his large eyes appeared both pride and despair; his flowing 85 hair retained some resemblance... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 492 pages
...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 Becklord's original, has a bristly head of hair and beard ;... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 482 pages
...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 - English literature - 1920 - 484 pages
...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... | |
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Eblis. His person was that of a young man, whose noble and regular features seemed to have been tarnished by malignant vapours. In his large eyes appeared both pride and despair. His flowing hair retained some resemblance to that of an angel of light. 
