Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 43
... stones , he quoted , inevitably , “ Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit " , and moralized on the inconstancy of fortune , remembering other noble cities buried in their ruins - Nineveh , Babylon , Tyre , Carthage , Numan- tia , Athens , Thebes ...
... stones , he quoted , inevitably , “ Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit " , and moralized on the inconstancy of fortune , remembering other noble cities buried in their ruins - Nineveh , Babylon , Tyre , Carthage , Numan- tia , Athens , Thebes ...
Pagina 64
... stone , with palaces , theatres , temples , aqueducts , sewers , every possible amenity for body and mind . Above all he built the great harbour , sinking in it huge stones to make a curved breakwater . A stone mole encircled the ...
... stone , with palaces , theatres , temples , aqueducts , sewers , every possible amenity for body and mind . Above all he built the great harbour , sinking in it huge stones to make a curved breakwater . A stone mole encircled the ...
Pagina 83
... stones , leaping or wading through gushing waters , climbing dilapidated walls , entering by an arch , through which I am dragged up , and , all obstacles surmounted , I stood among the far - famed ruins of the three temples of Baalbek ...
... stones , leaping or wading through gushing waters , climbing dilapidated walls , entering by an arch , through which I am dragged up , and , all obstacles surmounted , I stood among the far - famed ruins of the three temples of Baalbek ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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