Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 54
... buried almost completely by prosperity , that foe so much deadlier to antiquity than destruction , plunder or abandonment . Sidon , Saida , de- stroyed so often , is , as she was in her Phoenician days , a thriving , trading port and ...
... buried almost completely by prosperity , that foe so much deadlier to antiquity than destruction , plunder or abandonment . Sidon , Saida , de- stroyed so often , is , as she was in her Phoenician days , a thriving , trading port and ...
Page 204
... buried , broken stones of its streets and walls and temples . Standing on that wind - swept citadel , or sitting in that small rock - hewn theatre , with the campagna rolling below from the Alban hills to Rome and the misty sea , one ...
... buried , broken stones of its streets and walls and temples . Standing on that wind - swept citadel , or sitting in that small rock - hewn theatre , with the campagna rolling below from the Alban hills to Rome and the misty sea , one ...
Page 405
... buried deeper through the middle ages , whose writers called the whole lot collectively the palatium maius , and whose robber barons set on their foundations their castles and towers , till the Farnesi took them in the sixteenth century ...
... buried deeper through the middle ages , whose writers called the whole lot collectively the palatium maius , and whose robber barons set on their foundations their castles and towers , till the Farnesi took them in the sixteenth century ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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