Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 37
... seem to be the working in reverse of the principle by which hens produce actual eggs when confronted by sham ones in their nest . The same principle may be responsible for the sham- ruin entrance of Croxton Rectory , Lancashire , which ...
... seem to be the working in reverse of the principle by which hens produce actual eggs when confronted by sham ones in their nest . The same principle may be responsible for the sham- ruin entrance of Croxton Rectory , Lancashire , which ...
Page 324
... seem natural growths , like the olive trees . There seems no strangeness in the wrecked Syrian and Palestine shrines , only a quietly brooding desolation . 9 A much stranger melancholy broods over the drowned island of Philae , the ...
... seem natural growths , like the olive trees . There seems no strangeness in the wrecked Syrian and Palestine shrines , only a quietly brooding desolation . 9 A much stranger melancholy broods over the drowned island of Philae , the ...
Page 409
... seems , indeed , no end to the palatium maius . But it is such stuff as dreams are made on , and , like the baseless fabric of this vision , the cloud - capped towers , the gorgeous palaces , dissolve as we look , leaving only wracks ...
... seems , indeed , no end to the palatium maius . But it is such stuff as dreams are made on , and , like the baseless fabric of this vision , the cloud - capped towers , the gorgeous palaces , dissolve as we look , leaving only wracks ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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