Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 стор. |
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... Greece had inspired . Its remote antiquity , enveloped in the deepest recesses of recorded time , and its present extraordinary remains , combined to fill my mind with a sentiment in which awe was mingled with admiration . I was not so ...
... Greece had inspired . Its remote antiquity , enveloped in the deepest recesses of recorded time , and its present extraordinary remains , combined to fill my mind with a sentiment in which awe was mingled with admiration . I was not so ...
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... Greece . Too often in the undulant history of artistic taste , admiration for classical , Byzantine , Gothic or baroque architecture has been contemptuously exclusive , and visitors to Greece have exalted one mode of building to the ...
... Greece . Too often in the undulant history of artistic taste , admiration for classical , Byzantine , Gothic or baroque architecture has been contemptuously exclusive , and visitors to Greece have exalted one mode of building to the ...
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... Greece . Embassies came there from all lands ; never was more magnificent ceremonial and pageantry than in this alien feudal western court lording it in a conquered eastern land . " Here ... a society which retained all the religious ...
... Greece . Embassies came there from all lands ; never was more magnificent ceremonial and pageantry than in this alien feudal western court lording it in a conquered eastern land . " Here ... a society which retained all the religious ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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