I am willing to help rebuild your fortune, but I will not be an accomplice in the
ruin of others."
Count of Monte Cristo
This is Split--or Spalato--in Croatia, on a peninsular on the Dalmatian coast where the ancient core is the substantial, astonishing
ruin of the palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian.
'The most serviceable ruin in the world': Gavin Stamp on Diocletian's Palace
merely the ruin, "but the ruin of the ruin [that] is the hallmark
critical writing reflects anxiety about the ruin of the physical body.
"ruin of the aging human body" works alongside the classical
Lionel Johnson's modern ruins
Windscreen wipers rhythmically cut across the field of vision like a metronome marking time as the car circles the small area at the center of the city, passing the ruin of the City Center Cinema -- the elevated oval of pockmarked concrete, recently sold to foreign investors and destined to be razed.
Yet it is also reminiscent of a line from the Old Testament, in which the faithful are urged: "Be not overly wicked, neither be foolish: why should you die before your time?" evoking the inevitable path to ruin of those who sin.
Three facets of Beirut, a ruined city
This occurs through an attempted escape from the real--from the real
ruin of the Hotel de Ville rather than an image of the city in modernity as ruin.
Baudelaire's "Paysage" and the Commune ruins picturesque
Bell situates the ruin of Paris as a result of the Commune in relation to the Second Empire, specifically with the Exposition universelle of 1867, and implies that while the Paris of Haussmann and Napoleon III ends in misery, it may nevertheless perceive itself as being on par with the ancient capitals of renown.
This ruin resembles the ruin of a magical palace, illuminated, in an opera, by Bengali lights.
Regardless of the scientific validity of Erskine's speculations, the Commune as a process of ruin shares more in common with the ephemeral nature of the barricade and the demolition ruin of real estate speculation than it does with the classical ruined city, even in the case of catastrophic cities like Pompeii.
The ambivalent picturesque of the Paris Commune ruins
It is the
ruin of human aspiration and endeavour we are witnessing.
The lure of ruins. (Reviews)
About half a mile thro' the Woods I saw what had struck him, as indeed it did me: It was a Ruin of a large Monastery ...
The stillness and solemnity of the place were favourable to thought, and naturally led me to a train of ideas relative to the scene; when, like a good protestant, I began to indulge a secret triumph in the ruin of so many structures which I had always considered as the haunts of ignorance and supersition.
The ruined abbey in the eighteenth century
The noble
ruin of the Church of St John the Evangelist in Red Lion Square, the vaulted masterpiece of J.L.
'This undoubted failure has become a compelling monument': Gavin Stamp on the ruins of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross