Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 88
... visited it in 1818 , oddly dressed as Bedouins ( for dressing up as Bedouins used to be , perhaps is still , among the pleasures of visiting Arab ruins ) . The awful sublimity of the approach ( “ Salvator Rosa never conceived so savage ...
... visited it in 1818 , oddly dressed as Bedouins ( for dressing up as Bedouins used to be , perhaps is still , among the pleasures of visiting Arab ruins ) . The awful sublimity of the approach ( “ Salvator Rosa never conceived so savage ...
Pagina 283
... visits rarely - save the step Of Eastern Bandit over the deep wild Tracking the Beast of Deserts . " " This was the ... visited it , he saw only a fragment of its high walls , the two strong towers of Kali , a gate with Hindu Saracenic ...
... visits rarely - save the step Of Eastern Bandit over the deep wild Tracking the Beast of Deserts . " " This was the ... visited it , he saw only a fragment of its high walls , the two strong towers of Kali , a gate with Hindu Saracenic ...
Pagina 410
... visited it . It has been , possibly , the most serviceable ruin in the world , for it contains several hundred houses and several thousand inhabitants , besides a whole medieval town of narrow streets and small squares , clustering ...
... visited it . It has been , possibly , the most serviceable ruin in the world , for it contains several hundred houses and several thousand inhabitants , besides a whole medieval town of narrow streets and small squares , clustering ...
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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