Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 338
... round in a beautiful modern taste . The town is a very poor small place . " Dr Pococke thought better of Lord ... round and round with ivy - many trees are sprouted up against the walls , and only want to be increased with cypresses ! A ...
... round in a beautiful modern taste . The town is a very poor small place . " Dr Pococke thought better of Lord ... round and round with ivy - many trees are sprouted up against the walls , and only want to be increased with cypresses ! A ...
Page 362
... Round Tower by its north transept , a castle in its west end , ruins of abbeys and walls lying round it , the beautiful little twelfth - century Cormac's Chapel nestling against its south wall . Here , in this small corbel - roofed ...
... Round Tower by its north transept , a castle in its west end , ruins of abbeys and walls lying round it , the beautiful little twelfth - century Cormac's Chapel nestling against its south wall . Here , in this small corbel - roofed ...
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Rose Macaulay. that of the new castle at Naples " and fine apartments round it ; in the hall was a very beautiful throne ; " I fancy that few things or none will be found more beautiful than that throne , " and round the hall ran an ...
Rose Macaulay. that of the new castle at Naples " and fine apartments round it ; in the hall was a very beautiful throne ; " I fancy that few things or none will be found more beautiful than that throne , " and round the hall ran an ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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