A Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, Continental Greece, Athens, and the Peloponnesus, the Islands of the Ægean Sea, Albania, Thessaly, and Macedonia |
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... height of summer , and in the early autumn . The hottest months are July , August , and part of September . It is in August and September chiefly that danger is to be apprehended from sickness . Fevers are then prevalent , especially in ...
... height of summer , and in the early autumn . The hottest months are July , August , and part of September . It is in August and September chiefly that danger is to be apprehended from sickness . Fevers are then prevalent , especially in ...
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... height of 5500 feet , and is the region of beech and pine . The fourth , or Alpine zone , including all the surface above 5500 feet in height , yields only a few wild plants . In Walpole's Memoirs of Turkey ' will be found a very ...
... height of 5500 feet , and is the region of beech and pine . The fourth , or Alpine zone , including all the surface above 5500 feet in height , yields only a few wild plants . In Walpole's Memoirs of Turkey ' will be found a very ...
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... S.E. , the lower de- clivities of which cover nearly the whole island . The highest summit of this range , rising to the height of 5380 ft . , was called of old Enos , 70 Sect . I. 3. Cephalonia : Remains of Proni , & c .;
... S.E. , the lower de- clivities of which cover nearly the whole island . The highest summit of this range , rising to the height of 5380 ft . , was called of old Enos , 70 Sect . I. 3. Cephalonia : Remains of Proni , & c .;
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... height of at least 200 ft . , and sloping precipitously into it on the other , is the " ancient mount " beneath whose shadow Childe Harold " saw the even- ing star above Leucadia's far - pro- jecting rock of woe . " Its summit is strewn ...
... height of at least 200 ft . , and sloping precipitously into it on the other , is the " ancient mount " beneath whose shadow Childe Harold " saw the even- ing star above Leucadia's far - pro- jecting rock of woe . " Its summit is strewn ...
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... height at the opposite end of the ridge . On the shore below is a small village called Kapsáli . There is excellent quail shooting in spring and autumn ; and the peasants here , as in Maina , are very expert in catching the birds on the ...
... height at the opposite end of the ridge . On the shore below is a small village called Kapsáli . There is excellent quail shooting in spring and autumn ; and the peasants here , as in Maina , are very expert in catching the birds on the ...
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Acarnania Acropolis Albanian ancient city antiquity ascends Athenian Athens Athos Attica beautiful Boeotia building built called castle Cephalonia Chalkis chief Christian church coast columns Constantinople Corfu Corinth Crete crosses descends district Doric eastern English entrance Euboea fortress gate Greece Greek Gulf harbour height Hellenic hill Homer Hotel houses inhabitants Ionian Ionian Islands island isthmus Joannina Kalamata khan Kyparissia lake marble Mesolonghi Messrs miles modern monastery Mount Mount Athos mountains Nauplia nearly neighbouring northern occupied Parthenon Pasha pass Patras Pausanias Peloponnesus peninsula picturesque Piræus plain port portico Prevesa probably Propylæa remains ridge river road rock rocky Roman round route ruins Salonica scenery shore side situated slope Sparta steamer steep stone Strabo summit Syra tains Taygetus temple theatre thence Theseus Thessaly tion towers town traces traveller Turkish Turks valley Venetian village Vostitza walls whence Zante
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Page 325 - A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they...
Page 325 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 325 - Must we but blush?— Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no;— the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one, arise,— we come, we come!
Page 322 - Out upon Time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 138 - 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 of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 416 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 68 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 325 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 138 - O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old /Egina's rock, and Idra's isle, The god of gladness sheds his parting smile; O'er his own regions lingering, loves to shine, Though there his altars are no more divine.
Page 325 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?