A Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, Continental Greece, Athens, and the Peloponnesus, the Islands of the Ęgean Sea, Albania, Thessaly, and Macedonia |
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... side walls of a temple , generally so as to assist in forming the portico . Sometimes , antę stood detached as rectangular piers . ARCHITRAVE - the horizontal course which forms the lowest member of the entablature , and rests ...
... side walls of a temple , generally so as to assist in forming the portico . Sometimes , antę stood detached as rectangular piers . ARCHITRAVE - the horizontal course which forms the lowest member of the entablature , and rests ...
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... side of the esplanade next the town is bounded by a lofty row of private houses with an arched walk beneath them . the King , stands out among the other buildings as prominently as did that of King Alcinous of old . ( Od . , vi . 300 ...
... side of the esplanade next the town is bounded by a lofty row of private houses with an arched walk beneath them . the King , stands out among the other buildings as prominently as did that of King Alcinous of old . ( Od . , vi . 300 ...
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... side of the arm of the sea , which extends deeply into the island from the S. The harbour is sheltered and safe , but grows shallow towards its termi- nation , where a causeway 700 yds . in length has been thrown across it at a point ...
... side of the arm of the sea , which extends deeply into the island from the S. The harbour is sheltered and safe , but grows shallow towards its termi- nation , where a causeway 700 yds . in length has been thrown across it at a point ...
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... side of this great gulf , local tradition exhibits in a small creek Ithaca is divided into four districts , the port of Phorcys , now called by the Bathy , Aetos , Anoge , and Exoge ; Ba¤ł , | Ithacans ' Aegķa , probably because it is ...
... side of this great gulf , local tradition exhibits in a small creek Ithaca is divided into four districts , the port of Phorcys , now called by the Bathy , Aetos , Anoge , and Exoge ; Ba¤ł , | Ithacans ' Aegķa , probably because it is ...
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... side , you look down on the winding strait , separating Ithaca from Cephalonia , whose rugged mountains rise abruptly from the water ; and , at the distance of about 10 m . , may be clearly distinguished the ruins of the ancient city of ...
... side , you look down on the winding strait , separating Ithaca from Cephalonia , whose rugged mountains rise abruptly from the water ; and , at the distance of about 10 m . , may be clearly distinguished the ruins of the ancient city of ...
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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 Joįnnina Kalamata khan Kyparissia lake Leake marble Mesolonghi Messrs miles modern monastery Mount Mount Athos mountains Nauplia nearly neighbouring northern occupied Parthenon Pasha pass Patras Pausanias Peloponnesus peninsula Piręus plain port portico Prevesa probably Propylęa 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 138 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by 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 of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with...
Page 201 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 245 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled, at its blaze — A funeral pile. The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted portion of the pain And power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain.
Page 34 - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
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 138 - Of bees' industrious murmur oft invites To studious musing ; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages ; his who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next...
Page 116 - Ionian blast, Hail the bright clime of battle and of song; Long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore; Boast of the aged! lesson of the young! Which sages venerate and bards adore, As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore.
Page 325 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 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 138 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
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.