Alarms and Discursions. Гилберт Кит Честертон
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Название: Alarms and Discursions
Автор: Гилберт Кит Честертон
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4057664631237
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G. K. Chesterton
Alarms and Discursions
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664631237
Table of Contents
The Philosophy of Sight-seeing
The Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds
Introductory: On Gargoyles
Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured by ancient rains or striped by recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain by a primeval hero. And as I looked at it, I thought of the meaning of the grotesque, and passed into some symbolic reverie of the three great stages of art.