Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 14
... Gothic troops fighting Rome in the third century , one of whom reports that from our troops I strayed To gaze upon a ruinous Monastery , And as I earnestly did fix mine eye Upon the wasted building . . . This passage can scarcely be ...
... Gothic troops fighting Rome in the third century , one of whom reports that from our troops I strayed To gaze upon a ruinous Monastery , And as I earnestly did fix mine eye Upon the wasted building . . . This passage can scarcely be ...
Pagina 32
... Gothic had gained a temporary victory over foreign classical , and the moss - grown ruinated medieval sham stirred more hearts than a poor Baalbec dwindled to the eye , And Paestum's fanes with columns six feet high , or than the Roman ...
... Gothic had gained a temporary victory over foreign classical , and the moss - grown ruinated medieval sham stirred more hearts than a poor Baalbec dwindled to the eye , And Paestum's fanes with columns six feet high , or than the Roman ...
Pagina 251
... Gothic cathedrals now mosques , es- cutcheoned palaces now offices , medieval chapter houses now garages , a Turkish market house once a Greek cathedral , its rich carved doorway facing the Latin St Sophia across the road . There has ...
... Gothic cathedrals now mosques , es- cutcheoned palaces now offices , medieval chapter houses now garages , a Turkish market house once a Greek cathedral , its rich carved doorway facing the Latin St Sophia across the road . There has ...
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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