Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 136
... stood the Roman town , massive temples which became Christian basilicas ; a forum , baths , slight remains of a theatre . Above the other little bay palaces and villas stood , appar- ently of elegant sophistication and comfort ; outside ...
... stood the Roman town , massive temples which became Christian basilicas ; a forum , baths , slight remains of a theatre . Above the other little bay palaces and villas stood , appar- ently of elegant sophistication and comfort ; outside ...
Pagina 230
... stood , the forum , the gates . Of the thousand years of Arab rule , during which the city and the Pharos fell gradually into ruin , he knew less , and did not greatly care . But he would have liked the picture of Ptolemaic Alexandria ...
... stood , the forum , the gates . Of the thousand years of Arab rule , during which the city and the Pharos fell gradually into ruin , he knew less , and did not greatly care . But he would have liked the picture of Ptolemaic Alexandria ...
Pagina 333
... stood to - day as they stood when first built , in all the glory of fresh paint , dazzling whiteness , polychrome sculptures , polished marble floors , roofs fraught with brightly hued godlike forms , should we admire them as much , or ...
... stood to - day as they stood when first built , in all the glory of fresh paint , dazzling whiteness , polychrome sculptures , polished marble floors , roofs fraught with brightly hued godlike forms , should we admire them as much , or ...
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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