 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 pàgines
...Regained, the ancient world is still mapped out before the eye, which here beholds " Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athena the eye of Greece, mother of arts and eloquence." And there is described imperial Rome,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1871 - 330 pàgines
...MONUMENTS, BOOK I.— GREECE. It " 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,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 pàgines
...Eegained, the ancient world is still mapped out before the eye, which here beholds " Where on the M%en..s\ shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts and eloquence." And there is described imperial Rome,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 392 pàgines
...Regained, the ancient world is still mapped out before the eye, which here beholds " 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." And there is described imperial Rome,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1900 - 308 pàgines
...singularly beautiful passage, descriptive of Athens in her imperial supremacy of intellect: " 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 pàgines
...REGAINED." Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the Aegean 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 - 1903 - 434 pàgines
...ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west ; behold Where on the JEgezn 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 hospitable,... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 pàgines
...Herodotus and Thucydides, Book 1). LECTURE III. The Golden Age of Athens. "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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 446 pàgines
...ere we leave this specular mount, 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 240 And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 pàgines
...ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the .itgean 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,... | |
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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... 
