Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 146
... a little bird sitting on some adjacent tree " . Both gentlemen finished a well - spent day by sleeping “ among the ruins of Persepolis , undisturbed by wild beasts ” . William Francklin , fifty years earlier , had found the ruins ...
... a little bird sitting on some adjacent tree " . Both gentlemen finished a well - spent day by sleeping “ among the ruins of Persepolis , undisturbed by wild beasts ” . William Francklin , fifty years earlier , had found the ruins ...
Page 261
... to rub the bloom from a fruit in exquisite decay , and that Velha Goa thus taken in hand would lose the peculiar rotten - ripe flavour that now enspells its phantom streets . A day will come , fears its patriotic Portuguese champion ...
... to rub the bloom from a fruit in exquisite decay , and that Velha Goa thus taken in hand would lose the peculiar rotten - ripe flavour that now enspells its phantom streets . A day will come , fears its patriotic Portuguese champion ...
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... To reach it is a long steep climb from the town ; Tiberius , according to a sculpture found on the island , did it by donkey ; so do wise travellers to - day . Its ruins are immense ; Gregorovius , who got much pleasure out of them in ...
... To reach it is a long steep climb from the town ; Tiberius , according to a sculpture found on the island , did it by donkey ; so do wise travellers to - day . Its ruins are immense ; Gregorovius , who got much pleasure out of them in ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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