The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ies. Lions, wild asses, dogs, deer, wildgoats, horses are represented in profusion; and wescarcely find a singleform which is specimens havebeen already given, asthe hunted stag and hindon page 282, and thestartled wild ass on page281. Others will occuramong the illustrationsof the next chapter. Forthe present it may sufficeto draw attention to thespirit of the two fallingasses in the subjoinedwoodcut (No. I.), and ofthe crouching l
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ies. Lions, wild asses, dogs, deer, wildgoats, horses are represented in profusion; and wescarcely find a singleform which is specimens havebeen already given, asthe hunted stag and hindon page 282, and thestartled wild ass on page281. Others will occuramong the illustrationsof the next chapter. Forthe present it may sufficeto draw attention to thespirit of the two fallingasses in the subjoinedwoodcut (No. I.), and ofthe crouching lion in thewoodcut (No. II., over-leaf) ; to the life-likeforce of both ass andhounds in the representa-tion (No. III., overleaf),and here particularly tothe bold drawing of theone of the dogs headsin full, instead of inprofile—a novelty now first occurring in the instances of still bolder attempts at unusual atti-tudes, and at the same time of a certain amount offore-shortening, two further illustrations are sorely-wounded lion in the first (p. 443) turns hishead piteously towards the cruel shaft, while he totters. 442 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. VI.
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