Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 245
... columns and triumphal arches with the castle dominating the whole . I went up the square tower of the minaret and looked out over the town - columns and black square towers over every ruined church and mosque , and the big castle , and ...
... columns and triumphal arches with the castle dominating the whole . I went up the square tower of the minaret and looked out over the town - columns and black square towers over every ruined church and mosque , and the big castle , and ...
Page 312
... columns or walls . Dr Dodwell remained four days , sleeping in a cavern in the side of the precipice , making drawings , entranced with the view , and scrambling down the precipice to examine the columns and metopes which had fallen ...
... columns or walls . Dr Dodwell remained four days , sleeping in a cavern in the side of the precipice , making drawings , entranced with the view , and scrambling down the precipice to examine the columns and metopes which had fallen ...
Page 373
... columns ; at Syracuse the walls of the seventh - century duomo rose on the great Doric columns of the sixth century B.C. temple of Athene , once , says Cicero , the most magnificent building of Syracuse with its golden adornments that ...
... columns ; at Syracuse the walls of the seventh - century duomo rose on the great Doric columns of the sixth century B.C. temple of Athene , once , says Cicero , the most magnificent building of Syracuse with its golden adornments that ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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