Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 90
... imaginative type of pleasure is offered by the remains of Nineveh and Babylon . Petra , Palmyra , and Baalbek can be enjoyed by anyone with eyes . Nineveh and Babylon need imagination , and some knowledge . To put it bluntly , they are ...
... imaginative type of pleasure is offered by the remains of Nineveh and Babylon . Petra , Palmyra , and Baalbek can be enjoyed by anyone with eyes . Nineveh and Babylon need imagination , and some knowledge . To put it bluntly , they are ...
Pagina 230
... imagination , the old magnificent streets , the porticoes , of which ruins and red granite pillars still stood , the forum , the gates . Of the thousand years of Arab rule , during which the city and the Pharos fell gradually into ruin ...
... imagination , the old magnificent streets , the porticoes , of which ruins and red granite pillars still stood , the forum , the gates . Of the thousand years of Arab rule , during which the city and the Pharos fell gradually into ruin ...
Pagina 349
... imagination formed it , after the vision vanished . " I " The imagination formed it " : that is the constant and eternal element , behind all the pleasures supplied by architecture , associations , history , the grandeur of the monastic ...
... imagination formed it , after the vision vanished . " I " The imagination formed it " : that is the constant and eternal element , behind all the pleasures supplied by architecture , associations , history , the grandeur of the monastic ...
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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