 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Where on the Agean shore a city stands Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold 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, See there the olive grove of Academe, 1 City or suburban, studious... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1855 - 536 pages
...classic associations, and concentres them " 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." It would seem as if there the passion for gain had been lost in the strife for glory ; as though no... | |
 | John Bullock - 1855 - 508 pages
...the capitals ot 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 \vitn, Or hospitable — " a city never so large as New York, but whose inhabitants produced within... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...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 to7 famous wits (1) Taprohane — the island of Ceylon. (2) Dusk faves — a line noted for its picturesqueness.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...south-west; behold Where on the ^Egpan shore a city stands, Built nobly; pure the air, and light the soil j 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; 1 Satan, persisting... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 pages
...wealth in unstinted profusion to rear the proud temple and the colossal statue to Pallas Athene. " 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 ; See there the olive... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1857 - 362 pages
...again deserted him. CHAPTEE VI. Behold Where on the Mgsea.n 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. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...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, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...marvellously musical passage from MILTON. BEHOLD Where on the .3Dgean 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 surburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 672 pages
...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 hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious... | |
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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... 
