 | William O. Blake - Geography - 1855 - 1010 pages
...beauties, than its classic associations, and the ruins of ancient art and splendor scattered over it. " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled. And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields, There the blithe bee... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 632 pages
...turn, appear to have suggested the beautiful eighty-seventh stanza in Canto IL of ,Childe Harold :— " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves and verdant are thy fields, Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled. And all his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1855 - 506 pages
...aa wild ; Sweet arc thy groves, and verdant arc thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his (Vagrant fortress buildl, The frceborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo »till thy long, long... | |
 | Samuel Rogers, William Maltby - Classicists - 1856 - 382 pages
...Campbell used to say that the lines which first convinced him that Byron was a true poet were these; " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet...Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still hia honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 376 pages
...any effectual resistance-. (Vlw,na is no IBPS a resort of painters than of pirates ; there LXXXVI. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
 | John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 pages
...tyrannical power of Russia ? Well may we be proud of our countrymen ! The poet proceeds to say— " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...verdant are thy fields. Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled. And still his horned wealth Hymittus yields, There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1856 - 794 pages
...fraught with such recollections thrilled like the sound of a trumpet through the heart of Europe ? " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - History - 1856 - 624 pages
...memory of departed friends, or the scenes of happy childhood"•weet, but mournful, to tbe soul." " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy grove?, ana verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva ami led, And still his honied... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...Greece ; and, closing my eyes, as I leaned against a crag, I repeated to myself Byron's lines — ' Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...are thy fields ; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1858 - 544 pages
...same soil to-day ! Climate, soil, aspect of nature, is still the same ; what an odds in the men ! " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...are thy fields ; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
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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... 
