Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 424
... courts tilted and jousted all the chivalry of Frankish Greece . Embassies came there from all lands ; never was more magnificent ceremonial and pageantry than in this alien feudal western court lording it in a conquered eastern land ...
... courts tilted and jousted all the chivalry of Frankish Greece . Embassies came there from all lands ; never was more magnificent ceremonial and pageantry than in this alien feudal western court lording it in a conquered eastern land ...
Pagina 433
... court beyond court . Inside , suites of exquisite , inlaid , haunted rooms ; " scores of venomous and suggestive little rooms " , where was lived " the riotous , sumptuous , murderous life " to which the British government , said ...
... court beyond court . Inside , suites of exquisite , inlaid , haunted rooms ; " scores of venomous and suggestive little rooms " , where was lived " the riotous , sumptuous , murderous life " to which the British government , said ...
Pagina 435
... court in which to play purcheesee with human chessmen , a court for the administration of justice , every other kind of court , and in- numerable architectural fantasies , all beautiful and mostly now in ruin . Fatehpur must have been ...
... court in which to play purcheesee with human chessmen , a court for the administration of justice , every other kind of court , and in- numerable architectural fantasies , all beautiful and mostly now in ruin . Fatehpur must have been ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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