Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina xvi
... pleasures - looting , carrying away fragments ( a treat enjoyed by great looters and small , from Lord Elgin and the Renaissance nobles and popes to the tourist pocketing stone eggs from fallen Corinthian capitals ) . There is the pleasure ...
... pleasures - looting , carrying away fragments ( a treat enjoyed by great looters and small , from Lord Elgin and the Renaissance nobles and popes to the tourist pocketing stone eggs from fallen Corinthian capitals ) . There is the pleasure ...
Pagina 47
... pleasure . " Even those who have visited these enchanting ruins while pursuing the apostle of the Gentiles on his ... pleasure in its purest , most enthusiastic , inquisitive , adven- turous and rewarding form . The noble , heady ...
... pleasure . " Even those who have visited these enchanting ruins while pursuing the apostle of the Gentiles on his ... pleasure in its purest , most enthusiastic , inquisitive , adven- turous and rewarding form . The noble , heady ...
Pagina 398
... pleasure in Sicily , palaces covering twice five miles of fertile ground with walls and towers and domes of pleasure at Xanadu . Palaces everywhere ; and more beneath the earth that we shall never see , so deeply over them have piled ...
... pleasure in Sicily , palaces covering twice five miles of fertile ground with walls and towers and domes of pleasure at Xanadu . Palaces everywhere ; and more beneath the earth that we shall never see , so deeply over them have piled ...
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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