 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 706 pages
...Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas!" Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
 | 700 pages
...Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh "Alas!" Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
 | Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?" p. 103. '" Yet ore thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe aswhen Minerva srnil'd, And mill his huuied wealth •Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bite his fragrant... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...are .thy tk-'-b, Thin« olive j ipc as when: Minerva srail'd, And still his honied wealth Hyihcltitl yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds. The freeborn wanderer of thy mountainair ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Mcndcli's marbles glare... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...laid dry, this one feature of the country has remained unaltered : — ' And still his honcy'd store Hymettus yields, There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain-air.' The honey here collected used to be reserved for the especial eating of the archbishop... | |
 | Europe - 1825 - 776 pages
...earth, Bioke by the share of every rustic plough." " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild. Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields ;...There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds. The frce-bom wanderer of thy mountain air ; Apollo Mill thy long, long summer, gilds. Still in his beam... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...hopeless state of modern Greece, Lord Byron proceeds-— ' Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd ; And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
 | 1811 - 546 pages
...hopeless state of modern Greece, Lord Byron proceeds — ' Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd ; And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 506 pages
...its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate? LXX1X. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, . And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; * * Phylerwhich commands a beautiful view of... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate ? LXX1X. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet are thy groves, and verd"ant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd,. And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; • 'Phyle, which commands a beautiful view... | |
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Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his... 
