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Swinton is not here to preach prudence, and have a lion-hunt I will." "With all my heart," replied Alexander. "Bremen, we are going to attack the lioness." "Yes, sir," said Bremen; "then we had better follow Cape fashion. We will back the horses towards her, and Omrah will hold them while we will attack her. I think one only had better fire, so we keep two guns in reserve."
On the other hand, the dress and the shields of the men engaged in the lion-hunt are identical with those on a number of other "Mycenaean" articles gems, statuettes, etc. which it is difficult to regard as all of foreign importation.
The composition during this period is more complicated and more ambitious than during the preceding one; but it may be questioned whether it is so effective. No single scene of the time can compare for grandeur with the lion-hunt above described.
Of the illustrations already given in the present volume a considerable number belong to this period. A favorable specimen of the style will be found in the lion-hunt which Mr.
The forms of life which were really beautiful to him follow in a series of exquisite Rubens-like pictures: harvest scenes and village festivals; the ploughing and the vintage, or the lion-hunt on the reedy margin of the river; and he describes them with a serene, sunny enjoyment which no other old world art or poetry gives us anything in the least resembling.
The design was inlaid in a separate thin slip of bronze, which was then inserted into a sinking on the blade. The materials used are various. The scene is a lion-hunt. Four men, one armed only with a bow, the others with lances and huge shields of two different forms, are attacking a lion. A fifth hunter has fallen and lies under the lion's fore-paws.
Swinton is not here to preach prudence, and have a lion-hunt I will." "With all my heart," replied Alexander. "Bremen, we are going to attack the lioness." "Yes, sir," said Bremen; "then we had better follow Cape fashion. We will back the horses toward her, and Omrah will hold them while we will attack her. I think one only had better fire, so we keep two guns in reserve."
If his imagination glanced back to the court of his royal grandfather, held under the palm shades, or pursuing the lion-hunt amidst the jungles of Africa, he had hastily withdrawn his mind's eye from scenes which might create impatience of his lot; and if he ever wondered whether a long succession of ignorant and sensual blacks were to be driven into the field by the whip every day in Saint Domingo, for evermore, he had cut short the speculation as inconsistent with his stoical habit of endurance, and his Christian principle of trust.
The enemy and all other men called it war, but to the Boers it was merely a hunt for lions such as they had engaged in oftentimes before. The old Boer farmer hardly needed the proclamation from Pretoria to tell him that there was to be a lion-hunt, and that he should prepare for it immediately.
Psamtik watched him, quivering with excitement, sprang towards the veranda, but before his lips could utter the curse which his heart had prepared, he sank powerless on to the ground. Cambyses beckoned to his followers to make immediate preparations for a lion-hunt in the Libyan mountains. The waters of the Nile had begun to rise again.
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