Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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Page 309
... woods . " They were pleased also with the oaks which sprang from the thick walls , for oaks have a beneficent power ... wood , lighted by a low autumnal sun , and the sheep and cattle at its feet , makes a picture not soon to be ...
... woods . " They were pleased also with the oaks which sprang from the thick walls , for oaks have a beneficent power ... wood , lighted by a low autumnal sun , and the sheep and cattle at its feet , makes a picture not soon to be ...
Page 323
... Wood , in tail - coat and fine beard , Mrs Wood and two other ladies in bonnets and pelisses , and a few Turks , stand with satisfaction among the noble débris . Later excavators dug up more , and the site is now arranged with system ...
... Wood , in tail - coat and fine beard , Mrs Wood and two other ladies in bonnets and pelisses , and a few Turks , stand with satisfaction among the noble débris . Later excavators dug up more , and the site is now arranged with system ...
Page 338
... wood - embedded abbey ruin was , till thirty years ago , Cistercian Netley ; which rivals Tintern and Melrose and Glastonbury in the number of poems it has evoked . " But how shall I describe ... woods that sloped 338 PLEASURE OF RUINS.
... wood - embedded abbey ruin was , till thirty years ago , Cistercian Netley ; which rivals Tintern and Melrose and Glastonbury in the number of poems it has evoked . " But how shall I describe ... woods that sloped 338 PLEASURE OF RUINS.
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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