 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...south-west, behold Where on the yEgean 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 grove... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...behold j 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, in her sweet recess, City' or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...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, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...southwest, behold Where on the ЛГ-gean shore a city stands Built nubly, pure the air, and light the soil, ullen sounds his grief beguil'd, A solemn, strange, and mingled air, 'Twas sad by hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades; See there the olive grove... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...learning and knowledge of the Gentiles : he dilates, with exquisite gusto and eloquent delight, upon Athens, " the eye of Greece, mother of arts and eloquence, native to famous wits or hospitable,"—on the name of Plato, and his who bred The Tempter endeavours to hide his mortification... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...southwest, behold Where on the JEgeaa. 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 ; 243 See there the olive... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...south-west; hehold "Where on th' ^^ean shore a city stands Built nohly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitahle, in her swcct recess, City' of suhurhan, studious walks and shades. See there the olive... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...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, studions walks and shades. There flowery hill Hymettus,... | |
 | George Field - Color - 1835 - 310 pages
...burning sphere, His ready harbinger, With turtle wings the amorous clouds dividing. And again, — Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of Arts And Eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable ; in her sweet recess, City or suburb, studious walks and shadet. See there the olivr grove... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Europe - 1835 - 384 pages
...beautiful description : " Look ! on the Egean 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 or shades. See, there the olive-groves... | |
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