Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 136
... seen . Four miles away a tremendous three- tiered aqueduct spans a great gorge . Outside the museum , there is not very much to be seen in this charming place , but long - ago grandeur and present beauty brood over its stones . In ...
... seen . Four miles away a tremendous three- tiered aqueduct spans a great gorge . Outside the museum , there is not very much to be seen in this charming place , but long - ago grandeur and present beauty brood over its stones . In ...
Pagina 155
... seen Athens ; he had heard the pessimistic descriptions of those who had not seen it either , and he hated the Turks and their infidel occupation of Greece ; he saw them mosquing the church of the Parthenon , making the Propylaea their ...
... seen Athens ; he had heard the pessimistic descriptions of those who had not seen it either , and he hated the Turks and their infidel occupation of Greece ; he saw them mosquing the church of the Parthenon , making the Propylaea their ...
Pagina 269
... seen the cities in their full glory , or in their early ruin , as Copan in Honduras was seen and described by a Spanish officer in a letter to King Philip in 1576. The fashion of exploring to Copan was started by John Lloyd Stephens of ...
... seen the cities in their full glory , or in their early ruin , as Copan in Honduras was seen and described by a Spanish officer in a letter to King Philip in 1576. The fashion of exploring to Copan was started by John Lloyd Stephens of ...
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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