Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 18
... never before with such fervour . The seventeenth and eighteenth century explosion of ruin - feeling into paint and architecture was a climax , the coming to a head of an age - old emotion never inarticulate , but never fully finding its ...
... never before with such fervour . The seventeenth and eighteenth century explosion of ruin - feeling into paint and architecture was a climax , the coming to a head of an age - old emotion never inarticulate , but never fully finding its ...
Pagina 140
... never recovered from the Crusaders . The Turks , in their five centuries of occupation , did much less damage to the Byzantine marvels which they could never have emulated . The ruin of most of the palaces and churches reported by ...
... never recovered from the Crusaders . The Turks , in their five centuries of occupation , did much less damage to the Byzantine marvels which they could never have emulated . The ruin of most of the palaces and churches reported by ...
Pagina 188
... never never existed such a nation , and I hope for the happiness of mankind there never will again . " 1E . W. Manwaring , Italian Landscape in Eighteenth - century England . Then , in his autobiography- " My temper is not 188 PLEASURE ...
... never never existed such a nation , and I hope for the happiness of mankind there never will again . " 1E . W. Manwaring , Italian Landscape in Eighteenth - century England . Then , in his autobiography- " My temper is not 188 PLEASURE ...
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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