Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 334
... temples of Mexico and the Maya country and Cambodia and Ceylon ; the medieval Arab mosques that bear witness to the Islamic glories of Anatolia and of East Africa ; the Assyrian temples lying buried , or piece by piece emerging , from ...
... temples of Mexico and the Maya country and Cambodia and Ceylon ; the medieval Arab mosques that bear witness to the Islamic glories of Anatolia and of East Africa ; the Assyrian temples lying buried , or piece by piece emerging , from ...
Pagina 386
... temples in their rocky matrix has preserved them largely intact ; enough damage to qualify as ruin , too little to harm them . They are , of course , comparative parvenus among Indian cave temples ; the solid permanence and near ...
... temples in their rocky matrix has preserved them largely intact ; enough damage to qualify as ruin , too little to harm them . They are , of course , comparative parvenus among Indian cave temples ; the solid permanence and near ...
Pagina 387
... temples mostly in ruin ; round the sacred lake seven thousand temples once lay ; there are now a few hundred , all ruinous , representing about six centuries of Orissan art . But all over the richly idolatrous sub - continent the ruined ...
... temples mostly in ruin ; round the sacred lake seven thousand temples once lay ; there are now a few hundred , all ruinous , representing about six centuries of Orissan art . But all over the richly idolatrous sub - continent the ruined ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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