Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina xvii
... ruinous world ( in which there are , above and under the earth , far more ruined than unruined buildings ) , I have only had space to select a few ruinous objects , a ruin here and a ruin there , to illustrate the human attitude towards ...
... ruinous world ( in which there are , above and under the earth , far more ruined than unruined buildings ) , I have only had space to select a few ruinous objects , a ruin here and a ruin there , to illustrate the human attitude towards ...
Pagina 14
... ruinous Monastery , And as I earnestly did fix mine eye Upon the wasted building . . . This passage can scarcely be taken as evidence that ruin - gazing was a normal pastime for Gothic troops of the late third century , or , indeed ...
... ruinous Monastery , And as I earnestly did fix mine eye Upon the wasted building . . . This passage can scarcely be taken as evidence that ruin - gazing was a normal pastime for Gothic troops of the late third century , or , indeed ...
Pagina 141
... ruinous mosques that were Greek churches , vanished Byzantium below Islam , the spacious gardens , the storks , the ... ruinous façade , girdled by great , broken , expugnable walls . 20 There is no such division in Persepolis ; it is ...
... ruinous mosques that were Greek churches , vanished Byzantium below Islam , the spacious gardens , the storks , the ... ruinous façade , girdled by great , broken , expugnable walls . 20 There is no such division in Persepolis ; it is ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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