Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 13
... Arab poets were seized by the same emotion at the sight of ruin . Even the Bedouins , writes a tenth - century Spanish ... Arabs have lost this sense : to them an ancient ruin is either a sheltering place or a quarry for stones . As to ...
... Arab poets were seized by the same emotion at the sight of ruin . Even the Bedouins , writes a tenth - century Spanish ... Arabs have lost this sense : to them an ancient ruin is either a sheltering place or a quarry for stones . As to ...
Pagina 92
... Arabs engaged to dig , the party walked to the mound of Nimroud , which " broke like a distant mountain on the morning sky " . Broken fragments of cuniform - inscribed pottery were strewn on all sides ; among them were fragments of a ...
... Arabs engaged to dig , the party walked to the mound of Nimroud , which " broke like a distant mountain on the morning sky " . Broken fragments of cuniform - inscribed pottery were strewn on all sides ; among them were fragments of a ...
Pagina 95
... Arabs , while Kurdish musicians played their drums and pipes , Arabs shouted war - cries , women screamed incessantly , the ropes strained and creaked , and finally broke . The bull , fortunately , was unhurt by his fall , and the music ...
... Arabs , while Kurdish musicians played their drums and pipes , Arabs shouted war - cries , women screamed incessantly , the ropes strained and creaked , and finally broke . The bull , fortunately , was unhurt by his fall , and the music ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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