Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 109
... lived long ago , and placed them in Argos . In any case they are not fifth - century Hellenes , and are hard to know , both for Aeschylus and ourselves . Standing within those broken walls , beside the royal tombs now rifled of their ...
... lived long ago , and placed them in Argos . In any case they are not fifth - century Hellenes , and are hard to know , both for Aeschylus and ourselves . Standing within those broken walls , beside the royal tombs now rifled of their ...
Pagina 264
... lived and traded and built and fortified and grew rich there cannot have enjoyed it , though in its strange tawny desolation and burning heat Castilians might feel at home . 4 The Portuguese and the Spanish strewed their now abandoned ...
... lived and traded and built and fortified and grew rich there cannot have enjoyed it , though in its strange tawny desolation and burning heat Castilians might feel at home . 4 The Portuguese and the Spanish strewed their now abandoned ...
Pagina 298
... lived there , and lived well . The ghosts that walk the Ostia streets , and pace those pillared atria , seem the ghosts of merchants , not of the luxurious holiday - makers and leisurely gentlemen who lived in and decorated many of the ...
... lived there , and lived well . The ghosts that walk the Ostia streets , and pace those pillared atria , seem the ghosts of merchants , not of the luxurious holiday - makers and leisurely gentlemen who lived in and decorated many of the ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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