Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 стор. |
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... destruction - seeking souls . Or , more usually , by their mere picturesqueness . " I am living in the Capuchin Convent , " Byron wrote from Athens , " Hymettus before me , the Acropolis behind , the Temple of Jove to my right , the ...
... destruction - seeking souls . Or , more usually , by their mere picturesqueness . " I am living in the Capuchin Convent , " Byron wrote from Athens , " Hymettus before me , the Acropolis behind , the Temple of Jove to my right , the ...
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... destruction the dilapidating fury of the Abbé Fourmont , who , sent to Greece in 1729 by Louis XV to copy inscriptions , embarked ( according to himself ) on an orgy of destruction , not only destroying many inscriptions after copying ...
... destruction the dilapidating fury of the Abbé Fourmont , who , sent to Greece in 1729 by Louis XV to copy inscriptions , embarked ( according to himself ) on an orgy of destruction , not only destroying many inscriptions after copying ...
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... destruction . It withstood the great gale and sea that destroyed much of Macao in 1831 , tearing away the quay and the roofs of houses and damaging churches ; but Macao was always , even in its heyday , on the road to destruction ...
... destruction . It withstood the great gale and sea that destroyed much of Macao in 1831 , tearing away the quay and the roofs of houses and damaging churches ; but Macao was always , even in its heyday , on the road to destruction ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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