Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 32
... perhaps a fox . There might , too , be a hermit ; but in that case the roof must not be so ruinated as to let in the rain ; a ghost was less trouble . Such a fashion could not be permanent : it defeated itself , as time went on , by its ...
... perhaps a fox . There might , too , be a hermit ; but in that case the roof must not be so ruinated as to let in the rain ; a ghost was less trouble . Such a fashion could not be permanent : it defeated itself , as time went on , by its ...
Pagina 269
... perhaps almost by chance , perhaps by the identifica- tion of sites with the descriptions given by post - conquest Spaniards who had seen the cities in their full glory , or in their early ruin , as Copan in Honduras was seen and ...
... perhaps almost by chance , perhaps by the identifica- tion of sites with the descriptions given by post - conquest Spaniards who had seen the cities in their full glory , or in their early ruin , as Copan in Honduras was seen and ...
Pagina 384
... perhaps several . But they have not invariably been sure what it is ; it may be an outlying fragment , a suburb , in the green belt of some city already known ; can it , they uneasily wonder , have been after all only a part of Pra Khan ...
... perhaps several . But they have not invariably been sure what it is ; it may be an outlying fragment , a suburb , in the green belt of some city already known ; can it , they uneasily wonder , have been after all only a part of Pra Khan ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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