Here, too, an ancient world, our ancient world, lies spread out in rare charm of colour and outline, and every footstep is fraught with memories. The lovely islands of the Pacific have a past, but their past is not our past, and men who strike deep notes... Siren Land - الصفحة 310بواسطة Norman Douglas - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 337عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Edward Chaney - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...Austria in more or less mundane terms. '" In concluding Siren Lmd, however, Norman Douglas insisted that 'No person of culture, however prosaic, will easily...civilised man to pause and ponder before the relics of his past.'1' After praise of Lenormant, for whom 'Italy proved fatal', Old Calabria ends on a similar note:... | |
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