Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 153
... Athens lacked such mourners as Arch- bishop Michael Akominatos , who was to bewail the ruined city of the twelfth century . We have more comments on the destructions and depredations of Sulla four centuries later ; but the Acropolis ...
... Athens lacked such mourners as Arch- bishop Michael Akominatos , who was to bewail the ruined city of the twelfth century . We have more comments on the destructions and depredations of Sulla four centuries later ; but the Acropolis ...
Pagina 155
... Athens and see , instead of the most magnificent works , broken fragments and lamentable ruins " : - moral , do not trust in your own strength but in God's . But the Pope had not actually seen Athens ; he had heard the pessimistic ...
... Athens and see , instead of the most magnificent works , broken fragments and lamentable ruins " : - moral , do not trust in your own strength but in God's . But the Pope had not actually seen Athens ; he had heard the pessimistic ...
Pagina 160
... Athens . “ Everything relative to this catastrophe , " wrote Edward Dodwell , who was in Athens at the time , “ was conducted with an eager spirit of in- sensate outrage , and an ardour of insatiate rapacity , in opposition not only to ...
... Athens . “ Everything relative to this catastrophe , " wrote Edward Dodwell , who was in Athens at the time , “ was conducted with an eager spirit of in- sensate outrage , and an ardour of insatiate rapacity , in opposition not only to ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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