Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 84
... travellers pitched their tents in the court of the great temple , has faded since Baalbek became a fashionable modern Levantine town . But the acropolis remains , with its orange - hued temples , pillars , courts , basilica , and fallen ...
... travellers pitched their tents in the court of the great temple , has faded since Baalbek became a fashionable modern Levantine town . But the acropolis remains , with its orange - hued temples , pillars , courts , basilica , and fallen ...
Page 85
... traveller had ever before been seen ; and a close examination of these works of the infidels , as they are called , would have excited suspicion that I was a magician in search of treasures . Future travellers may visit the spot under ...
... traveller had ever before been seen ; and a close examination of these works of the infidels , as they are called , would have excited suspicion that I was a magician in search of treasures . Future travellers may visit the spot under ...
Page 321
... travellers who had preceded us . " 2 The glorious temple rose in his mind , as described by the historians who had seen it or heard tell of it : the fifth , or Hellen- istic , temple , the carved Ionic columns sixty feet high , the ...
... travellers who had preceded us . " 2 The glorious temple rose in his mind , as described by the historians who had seen it or heard tell of it : the fifth , or Hellen- istic , temple , the carved Ionic columns sixty feet high , the ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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