Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical |
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Acropolis Agora ancient Arcadia Argolic Argos Athenian plain Athens Attica battle battle of Marathon battle of Salamis beautiful behold beneath Boeotia called Cecrops centre Cephissus character citadel Citharon coast consecrated contemplate Corinth Decelea Deities Delphi distance earth east eastern Eleusis eminence exhibits favourable flows frontier Goddess Greece Greek groves Gulf Haliacmon harbour Helicon Hercules hero hill honour Hymettus inhabitants island King Lacedæmonians Laconia lake land lofty marble miles Minerva Mount Parnes Mount Pindus mountain natural north-east objects Orchomenus Pallantium Parnon PARTHENON pass Peloponnesus Peneus Peninsula Pentelicus Persians Phocis Phyle Pindus plain of Marathon Platea poet portico present promontory provinces remarkable Rhamnus ridge river road rock rocky Rome ruins sacred Salamis scene sculpture shore side soil south-east southern Sparta spot stands statues stood stream summit Sunium Taygetus Temple Thebes Themistocles Theseus Thessaly town valley walls western
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Page 31 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 270 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 31 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 216 - To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came : and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions, Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary walks.
Page 23 - Then meeting join'd their tribute to the sea : Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine ; With herds the pastures throng'd, with flocks the hills ; Huge cities and high-tower'd, that well might seem The seats of mightiest monarchs ; and so large The prospect was, that here and there was room For barren desert, fountainless and dry.
Page 319 - ... Hippodrome, but as having outrun his rivals in the stadium at Olympia. A reflection on the rapid course of time (the great racer in the stadium of the world) might well be suggested by such a practice ; but it is more remarkable, as illustrating the regard paid, by the unanimous consent of all the states of Greece, to those exercises of physical force, which preserved them so long from the corruptions of luxury and effeminacy, into which, through their growing opulence and familiarity with oriental...
Page 138 - We will now imagine that the great bronze doors of which we have spoken as standing at the termination of this gallery are thrown back upon their hinges to admit the riders, and charioteers, and all that long and magnificent array of the Panathenaic procession, which stretches back from this spot to the area of the Agora at the western foot of the citadel. We behold through this vista the interior of the Athenian Acropolis. We pass under the gateway before us, and enter its precincts, surrounded...
Page 232 - A long, lofty wall spans a desolate plain ; to the north of it rises, on a distant hill, the shattered scena of a theatre ; and, to the west, the extended, though broken, line of an aqueduct connects the distant mountains, from which it tends, with the main subject of the picture, the city itself." 2 To people this city, Augustus uprooted the neighbouring mountaineers from their native homes, dragging them by his arbitrary compulsion " from their healthy hills to this low and swampy plain.
Page 270 - Thamus ! who, giving ear to the cry, was bidden (for he was pilot of the ship), when he came near to Pelodes " (the Bay of Butrinto) " to tell that the great god Pan was dead ; which he doubting to do, yet for that when he came to Pelodes there was such a calm of wind that the ship stood still in...