Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 64
... described as a beautiful city in the eleventh . A fine town , said a Persian writer in 1047 , with running water , and fountains gushing through it . But by the end of the thirteenth century it was a ruin ; the Crusaders , Saladin , a ...
... described as a beautiful city in the eleventh . A fine town , said a Persian writer in 1047 , with running water , and fountains gushing through it . But by the end of the thirteenth century it was a ruin ; the Crusaders , Saladin , a ...
Pagina 143
... described with loving care . Sir Thomas Herbert , in 1628 , admired it even more . Let us now ( what pace you please ) to Persepolis , not much out of the road : but were it a thousand times further , it merits our paines to view it ...
... described with loving care . Sir Thomas Herbert , in 1628 , admired it even more . Let us now ( what pace you please ) to Persepolis , not much out of the road : but were it a thousand times further , it merits our paines to view it ...
Pagina 318
... described with such elaboration by Pausanias , the stadium , the hippodrome , the gymnasium , the Pelopian , and , above all , the earthquake - thrown , prostrate temple of Zeus , the centre of this citadel of sport , politics and ...
... described with such elaboration by Pausanias , the stadium , the hippodrome , the gymnasium , the Pelopian , and , above all , the earthquake - thrown , prostrate temple of Zeus , the centre of this citadel of sport , politics and ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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