 | William Bodham Donne - 1872 - 224 pages
...THE DATS OF EURIPIDES. "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." — Par. Regained. THE greater poets of all times and countries,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1872 - 596 pages
...associations, of Athens : — Where on the ЛСксдп shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure tiie 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.... | |
 | Philip Smith - History, Ancient - 1873 - 596 pages
...describe the well-known site, " Where on the /Egaean shore a city Btands, Uuilt nobly ; pure the air and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits." The great Ionian families of Attica claimed to be Autochthones, or children... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Greece - 1874 - 364 pages
...enterprise. Here, and here only, could stand the city sung by Milton : — " 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."... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1874 - 332 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 wit3 Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 694 pages
...Begained," iv. 1. 227) says: — " "\Yhere 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.... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 pages
...Regained," iv. l. 227) says: — " Where on the JEgean shore a city stands, Ruilt nofcly, pure the air. aud 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.... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 266 pages
...interest for mankind — " Behold Where on the JUgean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence." ATHENS, with a population of about 64,000 inhabitants, stands four miles from the sea, and in the days... | |
 | Philip Smith - History, Ancient - 1885 - 602 pages
...describe the well known site, " 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." The great Ionian families of Attica claimed to be Autochthones, or children... | |
 | James Albert Harrison - Greece - 1885 - 570 pages
...associations of Athens: — Where on the ALgean 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.... | |
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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... 
