Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 87
... Roman columns , and stucco orna- ment on the walls . Near it are the ruins of a large peripteral temple . A great three - bayed gate gives access to a way still partly paved , leading to the city , of which the centre is an immense mar ...
... Roman columns , and stucco orna- ment on the walls . Near it are the ruins of a large peripteral temple . A great three - bayed gate gives access to a way still partly paved , leading to the city , of which the centre is an immense mar ...
Pagina 116
... Roman town . The freedmen he sent to colonize it opened and rifled the tombs , taking from them to Rome a wealth of bronzes , marbles , terra - cottas . The Roman town sprang up on the Greek foundations ; a Roman temple on a Greek market , ...
... Roman town . The freedmen he sent to colonize it opened and rifled the tombs , taking from them to Rome a wealth of bronzes , marbles , terra - cottas . The Roman town sprang up on the Greek foundations ; a Roman temple on a Greek market , ...
Pagina 370
... Roman destructions in Greece ; all of us to - day too near the bombing that wrecked Caen and Monte Cassino and our City churches : passions have not cooled , the lichen has not grown . Ruin - pleasure requires a gulf of years ; seeking ...
... Roman destructions in Greece ; all of us to - day too near the bombing that wrecked Caen and Monte Cassino and our City churches : passions have not cooled , the lichen has not grown . Ruin - pleasure requires a gulf of years ; seeking ...
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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