| Philip Smith - 1864 - 620 pàgines
...supremacy of Greece, was ATHENS. It is needless to describe the well-known site, " Where on the ;Ega;au 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... | |
| John Milton - 1864 - 584 pàgines
...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 240 " And eloquence, native to famous wits, " Or... | |
| esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pàgines
...PARADISE REGAINED. The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. — BOOK IV. On the -iSgean 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,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pàgines
...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,... | |
| John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pàgines
...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 light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts MO And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable,... | |
| Thomas William Allies - 1865 - 436 pàgines
...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... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1865 - 462 pàgines
...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.... | |
| Acrostics - 1867 - 302 pàgines
...Which, when the tempest vexed the sky, Half breeze, half spray, came whistling by." 6. " On the /Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil." CCM 402. " Thou shall teach us from on high How to live and die ; How the golden hues of love... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pàgines
...Childe Harold, Canto IV. ATHENS. WESTWARD, much nearer by south-west, 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 eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable,... | |
| English poetry - 1867 - 336 pàgines
...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 6 And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable,... | |
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