Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 136
... miles of coast they stand , each with its individual character , its own beauties , its own history , but all with the unmistakable Roman stamp , the proud domina- tion of the ruling race in savage lands . Beneath the disguise of the ...
... miles of coast they stand , each with its individual character , its own beauties , its own history , but all with the unmistakable Roman stamp , the proud domina- tion of the ruling race in savage lands . Beneath the disguise of the ...
Pagina 360
... miles to the north - west , and , lying among the fields by Godstow bridge , you will find all that is left of Godstow nun- nery - a broken wall round a grassy space where farm cattle graze , the remains of a chapel , two windows ...
... miles to the north - west , and , lying among the fields by Godstow bridge , you will find all that is left of Godstow nun- nery - a broken wall round a grassy space where farm cattle graze , the remains of a chapel , two windows ...
Pagina 399
... miles north - west of Peking , that miracle of rare device set in green forests and gardens of incense- bearing trees , with the sacred river meandering with mazy motion five miles through them to the sea , is the most dream - like ...
... miles north - west of Peking , that miracle of rare device set in green forests and gardens of incense- bearing trees , with the sacred river meandering with mazy motion five miles through them to the sea , is the most dream - like ...
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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