Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 334
... forest slopes , or above the ruined shores of Tyrrhenian and Ionian bays ; or with the more austere pleasures of the ... Forest of Arden or the great wild woods of Roncevalles or the Black Forest of Bavaria or the woody crags of the ...
... forest slopes , or above the ruined shores of Tyrrhenian and Ionian bays ; or with the more austere pleasures of the ... Forest of Arden or the great wild woods of Roncevalles or the Black Forest of Bavaria or the woody crags of the ...
Page 378
... forest , and to a dark whisper of crowding bats . No ruin has better illustrated the great cleavage between the two divergent schools of ruin - pleasurists , the romantic and the archaeological . Since the discovery of Angkor , many ...
... forest , and to a dark whisper of crowding bats . No ruin has better illustrated the great cleavage between the two divergent schools of ruin - pleasurists , the romantic and the archaeological . Since the discovery of Angkor , many ...
Page 385
... forest dreams is worth all the anguish of the quest , wherein the ruin - seekers have persevered in peril of tigers , peril of snakes , peril of mosquitoes , of crocodiles , fever , thirst , ex- haustion , rival explorers , and the ...
... forest dreams is worth all the anguish of the quest , wherein the ruin - seekers have persevered in peril of tigers , peril of snakes , peril of mosquitoes , of crocodiles , fever , thirst , ex- haustion , rival explorers , and the ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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