Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 329
... mountain - side , her com- panion Victory , discovered three years ago , facing her from the rock of the Doric temple , the sacred hall where the ancient mysteries were celebrated by Pelasgians six centuries before Christ , the ...
... mountain - side , her com- panion Victory , discovered three years ago , facing her from the rock of the Doric temple , the sacred hall where the ancient mysteries were celebrated by Pelasgians six centuries before Christ , the ...
Pagina 370
... mountains of Spain the great ruined Benedictine abbeys tower , abandoned , wrecked and plundered , but in- domitably majestic , seeming still to dominate and command the villages at their feet ; like San Pere de Roda on its mountain ...
... mountains of Spain the great ruined Benedictine abbeys tower , abandoned , wrecked and plundered , but in- domitably majestic , seeming still to dominate and command the villages at their feet ; like San Pere de Roda on its mountain ...
Pagina 448
... mountain and sea castles of Cyprus . Of these the hugest and the most dramatic is St Hilarion , built by the Byzantines on a monastery site in the Kyrenia mountains . Twisting up and up into the sky , terrace above terrace , tower over ...
... mountain and sea castles of Cyprus . Of these the hugest and the most dramatic is St Hilarion , built by the Byzantines on a monastery site in the Kyrenia mountains . Twisting up and up into the sky , terrace above terrace , tower over ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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