 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...represent Athens thus: • Behold Where on the .ffigean 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...nearer hy south-west; hehold "Where on th' ^^ean shore a city stands Built nohly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitahle, in her swcct recess, City' of suhurhan, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | John Milton - Latin letters, Medieval and modern - 1829 - 130 pages
...particular : ' Behold, ' Where on the jEgean shore a city stands, ' Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil; ' Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts ' And elegance, native to famous wits, ' Or hospitable, in her sweet recess,' &c. noble country disappoint... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...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, studions walks and shades.... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...nearer by south-west ; behold Where on th' ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, to famous native wits, Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City, or suburban, studious walks and shades... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Europe - 1835 - 384 pages
...Milton's beautiful description : " Look ! on the Egean 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 or shades.... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...nearer by south-west, behold Where on the Mgeiai 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;... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - Art, Greek - 1839 - 512 pages
...nearer by south-west hehold ; Where on the ^Egxan 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.... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1841 - 312 pages
...nearer by south-west ; behold Where on th' jEgean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, to famous native wits, Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City, or suburban, studious walks and shades... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...and populous city. ATHENS. " Look ! on the jEgean 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 of suburban studious walks and shades!... | |
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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... 
