Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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... visitors were English merchants of the Aleppo factory , who set out from that city in hot July weather in 1678 , a ... visiting Palmyra in 1678. 1691 was better . This time ( the avaricious Emir having been opportunely ' Captain Irby and ...
... visitors were English merchants of the Aleppo factory , who set out from that city in hot July weather in 1678 , a ... visiting Palmyra in 1678. 1691 was better . This time ( the avaricious Emir having been opportunely ' Captain Irby and ...
Page 102
... visitors on the spot was reflected by complete ignorance on the part of the untravelled , But where is lordly Babylon ? where now Lifts she to heaven her giant brow ? the poet John Hughes enquired , and remained unanswered . During the ...
... visitors on the spot was reflected by complete ignorance on the part of the untravelled , But where is lordly Babylon ? where now Lifts she to heaven her giant brow ? the poet John Hughes enquired , and remained unanswered . During the ...
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... visitors in an audience chamber over one hundred and twenty feet long . The ruin was progressive ; by 1830 the Rev. Samuel Gobat , a protestant missionary , found the king living " in a little circular house built on the ruins of a part ...
... visitors in an audience chamber over one hundred and twenty feet long . The ruin was progressive ; by 1830 the Rev. Samuel Gobat , a protestant missionary , found the king living " in a little circular house built on the ruins of a part ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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