Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 136
... 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 the town is a ...
... 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 the town is a ...
Pagina 302
Rose Macaulay. 12 There are other dead towns in the Campagna , other towns which have died of malaria , and more lately ... town up a paved road , ivied and brambled , which goes under two gates to a piazza bordered by roofless buildings ...
Rose Macaulay. 12 There are other dead towns in the Campagna , other towns which have died of malaria , and more lately ... town up a paved road , ivied and brambled , which goes under two gates to a piazza bordered by roofless buildings ...
Pagina 410
... town enclosed in a palace , produced a stupendous effect on those who have visited it . It has been , possibly , the most serviceable ruin in the world , for it contains several hundred houses and several thousand inhabitants , besides ...
... town enclosed in a palace , produced a stupendous effect on those who have visited it . It has been , possibly , the most serviceable ruin in the world , for it contains several hundred houses and several thousand inhabitants , besides ...
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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