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Page 70
... look on her shining domes and teeming streets is to see a glittering , ruinous façade , girdled by great , broken , expugnable walls . Pleasure of Ruins ( 1953 ) Richard Davey One last look – as I stand on deck , and the great ship ...
... look on her shining domes and teeming streets is to see a glittering , ruinous façade , girdled by great , broken , expugnable walls . Pleasure of Ruins ( 1953 ) Richard Davey One last look – as I stand on deck , and the great ship ...
Page 107
... look so drear . Poor actors ! Greek or Roman , where are they , That toiled and laughed to make their fellows gay ... looks on thee , And feels no thrill of solemn ecstasy . As musing now we walk thy desert bound , The heart leaps up as ...
... look so drear . Poor actors ! Greek or Roman , where are they , That toiled and laughed to make their fellows gay ... looks on thee , And feels no thrill of solemn ecstasy . As musing now we walk thy desert bound , The heart leaps up as ...
Page 201
... looks upon the devil as being the Grand Vizier of Allah were to enter a village belonging to members of the rival faith , the new arrival would have a great chance of losing his life . ' Do you look upon the devil as the Grand Vizier of ...
... looks upon the devil as being the Grand Vizier of Allah were to enter a village belonging to members of the rival faith , the new arrival would have a great chance of losing his life . ' Do you look upon the devil as the Grand Vizier of ...
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