Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 137
... villas that lie on the hill slopes above the sea ; even when only the sites remain , an air of luxury haunts them , as at Mersa Matruh , where Cleopatra's villa stood above the harbour on the edge of the sandy bay ; visitors and bathers ...
... villas that lie on the hill slopes above the sea ; even when only the sites remain , an air of luxury haunts them , as at Mersa Matruh , where Cleopatra's villa stood above the harbour on the edge of the sandy bay ; visitors and bathers ...
Page 206
... villas and farms , Rome and its dome floating in a summer haze , the silver gleam of the sea beyond , has always been to experience the finest ecstasy of ruins . To seek later for the Praeneste villas of Horace , Hadrian , Pliny and the ...
... villas and farms , Rome and its dome floating in a summer haze , the silver gleam of the sea beyond , has always been to experience the finest ecstasy of ruins . To seek later for the Praeneste villas of Horace , Hadrian , Pliny and the ...
Page 413
... villa outside his noble Roman city of Salona , the capital of Dalmatia . Diocletian's is one of the few Roman imperial ... villas that crowd the gulf of Naples , the Phlegraean fields so beloved of patrician Romans , poets , states- men ...
... villa outside his noble Roman city of Salona , the capital of Dalmatia . Diocletian's is one of the few Roman imperial ... villas that crowd the gulf of Naples , the Phlegraean fields so beloved of patrician Romans , poets , states- men ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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