Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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... ruins here mentioned I have seen , many not . Some I have not seen for many years , and since I saw them they have suffered change . Ruins change so fast that one cannot keep pace : they disintegrate , they go to earth , they are tidied ...
... ruins here mentioned I have seen , many not . Some I have not seen for many years , and since I saw them they have suffered change . Ruins change so fast that one cannot keep pace : they disintegrate , they go to earth , they are tidied ...
Page 192
... ruins , its solitude gladdened by horticulture and wild vegetation . " Then there was the great and more restful pleasure of being painted by Tischbein . “ He paints me ... ruin as wreckage of perfection ) . Humboldt 192 PLEASURE OF RUINS.
... ruins , its solitude gladdened by horticulture and wild vegetation . " Then there was the great and more restful pleasure of being painted by Tischbein . “ He paints me ... ruin as wreckage of perfection ) . Humboldt 192 PLEASURE OF RUINS.
Page 346
... ruins - perhaps Netley , Riveaulx , Glastonbury , Beaulieu , Fountains , and those which have been irrevocably and beautifully merged in secular houses - might be kept as they are , to satisfy ... ruins to show , and 346 PLEASURE OF RUINS.
... ruins - perhaps Netley , Riveaulx , Glastonbury , Beaulieu , Fountains , and those which have been irrevocably and beautifully merged in secular houses - might be kept as they are , to satisfy ... ruins to show , and 346 PLEASURE OF RUINS.
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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