| William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...with' extraordinary Where on the J2gean sea 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... | |
| James Pillans - Classical geography - 1854 - 292 pages
...TH. xn. 500. Where on th' 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, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.—MiL.PE iv.237. Ancient... | |
| Sons of New Hampshire - New Hampshire - 1854 - 254 pages
...the public granaries were opened, and a scanty pittance of corn was doled out to the famished crowd. "Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or honorable," never learned the notion of the common brotherhood of the rich and the poor; or that other... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...Athens : — Where on the J5gean 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... | |
| Isocrates - Athens (Greece) - 1854 - 154 pages
...southwest, 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-grove... | |
| William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 748 pages
...south-west behold, Where on the .£gean shore a city stands, Built nobly; pare the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits, CHAP. XXXIV. CITY OF ATHENS. Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and... | |
| James Talboys Wheeler - Historians - 1855 - 402 pages
...them here? " 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 grove... | |
| William Smith - Greece - 1855 - 724 pages
...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 grove... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...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... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 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, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove... | |
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