Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 стор. |
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... turned his attention for a time to the great mound of Kouyunik , close to Mosul , which had always been believed by travellers to mark the actual site of the city of Nineveh ; he opened a few trenches in it , and returned to Nimroud to ...
... turned his attention for a time to the great mound of Kouyunik , close to Mosul , which had always been believed by travellers to mark the actual site of the city of Nineveh ; he opened a few trenches in it , and returned to Nimroud to ...
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... turning on them vague , incurious , lack - lustre eyes ? Or did they regard them with the contemptuous , the shocked ... turned their heads to stare at the mighty objects , the tremendous , richly wrought , sometimes crumbling monuments ...
... turning on them vague , incurious , lack - lustre eyes ? Or did they regard them with the contemptuous , the shocked ... turned their heads to stare at the mighty objects , the tremendous , richly wrought , sometimes crumbling monuments ...
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... turning a Roman palace into a medieval slum , turning pagan temples and a mausoleum into Christian churches . With its backing of mountains and its long arcaded façade rising from the sea , and the wide bay of ships before it stretching ...
... turning a Roman palace into a medieval slum , turning pagan temples and a mausoleum into Christian churches . With its backing of mountains and its long arcaded façade rising from the sea , and the wide bay of ships before it stretching ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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