Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 52
... fragments of walls , towers and great granite columns ; you could trace the line of the buried walls . Sand has silted up and broadened the causeway ; it is now covered by a road ; at the end of it Tyre lies , narrow - streeted and ...
... fragments of walls , towers and great granite columns ; you could trace the line of the buried walls . Sand has silted up and broadened the causeway ; it is now covered by a road ; at the end of it Tyre lies , narrow - streeted and ...
Page 161
... fragments and ancient skulls out of tombs . While archaeologists examined and identified fragments of columns , and artists made drawings of the sculptures , and poets mused and wrote , the ordinary visitors ( including the midship- men ...
... fragments and ancient skulls out of tombs . While archaeologists examined and identified fragments of columns , and artists made drawings of the sculptures , and poets mused and wrote , the ordinary visitors ( including the midship- men ...
Page 335
... fragments of carved stone and Gothic windows in the most incongruous places , in a thousand farm buildings standing about the countryside , as in the seven- teenth - century farm - house which has incorporated great fragments of ...
... fragments of carved stone and Gothic windows in the most incongruous places , in a thousand farm buildings standing about the countryside , as in the seven- teenth - century farm - house which has incorporated great fragments of ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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