Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 12
... Persian poet who mourned the great ruined city of Tus near the Turkestan border , desolated by invading hordes ... Persian Poetry ( trans . A. V. W. Jackson , 1920 ) . Another Persian , in the next century , dwelt lovingly 12 PLEASURE OF ...
... Persian poet who mourned the great ruined city of Tus near the Turkestan border , desolated by invading hordes ... Persian Poetry ( trans . A. V. W. Jackson , 1920 ) . Another Persian , in the next century , dwelt lovingly 12 PLEASURE OF ...
Pagina 141
... Persian pleasures , palaces , pillars , playing fountains , pealing bells , dancing girls , luscious gardens of ripe ... Persian lord speaks to the Persian king of " your merchants of Persepolis " , who trade with western lands THE ...
... Persian pleasures , palaces , pillars , playing fountains , pealing bells , dancing girls , luscious gardens of ripe ... Persian lord speaks to the Persian king of " your merchants of Persepolis " , who trade with western lands THE ...
Pagina 148
... Persian capital , of Susa nothing remains but mounds and pottery and bronze ornaments and enamelled bricks . Yet the spectacle and the exploration of this mighty site has always given acute pleasure to its beholders . To it across the ...
... Persian capital , of Susa nothing remains but mounds and pottery and bronze ornaments and enamelled bricks . Yet the spectacle and the exploration of this mighty site has always given acute pleasure to its beholders . To it across the ...
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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