 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 páginas
...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,...soil; " Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts 240 " And eloquence, native to famous wits, " Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, " City or suburban,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 páginas
...ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold ; Where on the ^Ggean shore a city stands, Built nobly; pure the air, and...the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts MO And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious... | |
 | John Bullock - 1865 - 506 páginas
...the capitals 01 buried empires. This feeling, so profound in Jerusalem and Rome, is even more so in Athens,— " the eye of Greece, mother of arts And...eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable—" a city never so large as New York, but whose inhabitants produced within the short space of two centuries,... | |
 | Thomas William Allies - 1865 - 436 páginas
...clearness of the atmosphere, and the hues of a spot renowned for its loveliness, " Where on the 2Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil." Athens was of old and gradual growth; but Antioch was selected by a rich and brilliant sovereign for the head... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1865 - 462 páginas
...ancients to Athens and Sparta, the most celebrated of all the Grecian cities. Behold, Where on the ^gean shore a city stands, Built nobly; pure the air, and light the soil; Athens, tfïc cife or" Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable. Stilton.... | |
 | Aaron Ward - 1865 - 332 páginas
...Milton rose to my mind, as I gazed from the Acropolis upon the scene around me : " Look ! on the J£gean shore a city stands , Built nobly— pure the air and light the soil. Athena! the eye of Greece, mother of arU And eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable in her... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...Westward, much nearer by south-west ; behold Where on the JEgfdn shore a city stands, Built nobly; pure ihe air, and light the soil; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of art* And eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City, or suburban, studious... | |
 | 1866 - 410 páginas
...Apulinm, p. 16. In stately cities, and in fruitful soil, In temperate breathing of the milder heaven. Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts MO And eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 394 páginas
...ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the JEgeari shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, 3i7 wait found] In Milton's own edition and others, it was printed ' was.' Tickell made the emendation... | |
 | 1893 - 684 páginas
...development of a cultivated taste. At length we have reached Athens. "... 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 art." We stand at the foot of the Acropolis, crowned with the temples that will be forever the delight... | |
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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... 
