Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 442
... castle paraphernalia , one feels that Comus and his crew would have had short shrift , and that the chieftain's moments were probably on the whole less fleecy than bloody . Such appears to have been the opinion of the Portuguese exile ...
... castle paraphernalia , one feels that Comus and his crew would have had short shrift , and that the chieftain's moments were probably on the whole less fleecy than bloody . Such appears to have been the opinion of the Portuguese exile ...
Page 449
... castle of the city is fine , and is nearly all in the sea . " The pre- sent excavations are uncovering early work . Sixty - five years ago , W. H. Mallock found half the castle walled up and inaccessible ; the ramparts were grass ...
... castle of the city is fine , and is nearly all in the sea . " The pre- sent excavations are uncovering early work . Sixty - five years ago , W. H. Mallock found half the castle walled up and inaccessible ; the ramparts were grass ...
Page 451
... castle that we mean . Henry James thought it was the sense of the past that we like in them ; " the sensation of dropping back personally into the past while I lay on the grass beside the well in the little sunny court of this small castle ...
... castle that we mean . Henry James thought it was the sense of the past that we like in them ; " the sensation of dropping back personally into the past while I lay on the grass beside the well in the little sunny court of this small castle ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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