Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 291
... houses and courtyards and gardens ruthlessly damaged . The directors of the early excavations , wrote a scornful ... houses too small - more like dolls ' houses than real buildings ; the streets were straight , the ground - floor storeys ...
... houses and courtyards and gardens ruthlessly damaged . The directors of the early excavations , wrote a scornful ... houses too small - more like dolls ' houses than real buildings ; the streets were straight , the ground - floor storeys ...
Pagina 292
... houses lining the streets monotonous and unornamental ; to live in them must have been like living in one of a row of bathing huts . Yet the better houses must have been delightful , with their colonnaded courts , flowering gardens set ...
... houses lining the streets monotonous and unornamental ; to live in them must have been like living in one of a row of bathing huts . Yet the better houses must have been delightful , with their colonnaded courts , flowering gardens set ...
Pagina 335
... houses or farm - houses or barns , so that one may see chancel arches and fragments of carved stone and Gothic windows in the most incongruous places , in a thousand farm buildings standing about the countryside , as in the seven ...
... houses or farm - houses or barns , so that one may see chancel arches and fragments of carved stone and Gothic windows in the most incongruous places , in a thousand farm buildings standing about the countryside , as in the seven ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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