Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 90
... Assyria made a deeper impression upon me , gave rise to more serious thoughts and more earnest reflections than the temples of Baalbec and the theatres of Ionia . ” ı For Layard was that imaginative and enterprising being , an ...
... Assyria made a deeper impression upon me , gave rise to more serious thoughts and more earnest reflections than the temples of Baalbec and the theatres of Ionia . ” ı For Layard was that imaginative and enterprising being , an ...
Pagina 98
... Assyria . Campaigns and conquests were described in detail ; the reigns of kings recorded ; the great flood rolled by . A dazzling light was suddenly turned on what had been mysterious darkness . " A few years ago , ” wrote James ...
... Assyria . Campaigns and conquests were described in detail ; the reigns of kings recorded ; the great flood rolled by . A dazzling light was suddenly turned on what had been mysterious darkness . " A few years ago , ” wrote James ...
Pagina 145
... Assyria surmount Graeco - Egyptian pillars— “ the columns of the Nile on the plains of Persia " . There are unattractive , un - Persian monsters , half - man , half - beast . The decoration is at once rich and formal ; the polished dark ...
... Assyria surmount Graeco - Egyptian pillars— “ the columns of the Nile on the plains of Persia " . There are unattractive , un - Persian monsters , half - man , half - beast . The decoration is at once rich and formal ; the polished dark ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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abbey Acropolis admiration Alexandria Troas Angkor antiquity Arabs arcaded archaeologists arches Asia Minor Athens Augustus Hare Baalbek Baiae baths beauty beneath broken buildings built buried Byzantine capital Carthage carved castle century Christian churches citadel climbing colonnades columns court crumbling decay decorated delightful desert desolation destroyed earth excavations exquisite fallen forest fragments gardens gates ghosts glory Gothic grandeur Greece Greek halls haunted Herculaneum hill houses Hubert Robert huge imagination inhabitants inscriptions island jungle kings landscape later look lovely magnificent marble medieval melancholy monastery monuments mosaic mosques mountain Mycenae Nineveh noble once painted palace Palmyra Pausanias picturesque pillars pleasure Pompeii portico quarried remains rich Richard Pococke Roman Rome round ruinous ruins sculptures seen shattered shrines splendour stand statues stones stood Strabo streets Sybaris Syria temples terraces theatre Thebes to-day tombs towers town travellers trees Troy Turks vaults villas visited visitors walls wild woods wrecked wrote