Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, the Kingdom of Greece, the Islands of the Aegean Sea, with Albania, Thessaly, and Macedonia |
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... plain , with Parnassus behind him and Citharon before him - he feels that he is reading over again all the old stories of his school and college days - all the old stories , but with new and most brilliant illuminations . He feels in ...
... plain , with Parnassus behind him and Citharon before him - he feels that he is reading over again all the old stories of his school and college days - all the old stories , but with new and most brilliant illuminations . He feels in ...
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... Plain of Troy . During the rest of July and August the traveller should remain quietly at Constantinople , and in the villages of the Bosphorus , which , at that season , are cooler than any other situation in the Mediterranean . The ...
... Plain of Troy . During the rest of July and August the traveller should remain quietly at Constantinople , and in the villages of the Bosphorus , which , at that season , are cooler than any other situation in the Mediterranean . The ...
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... plain , which , stretching from sea to sea , forms the most important and richest district of the island . It varies in breadth from 6 to 8 miles , and is bor- dered on the east , as we have seen , by Mount Skopos , the Castle - hill ...
... plain , which , stretching from sea to sea , forms the most important and richest district of the island . It varies in breadth from 6 to 8 miles , and is bor- dered on the east , as we have seen , by Mount Skopos , the Castle - hill ...
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... plains of Elis and Achaia skirting the sea . In approaching the shores of Greece , that land to which we are indebted ... plain be- low ; Death in the front , Destruction in the rear ! Such was the scene - what now remaineth here , What ...
... plains of Elis and Achaia skirting the sea . In approaching the shores of Greece , that land to which we are indebted ... plain be- low ; Death in the front , Destruction in the rear ! Such was the scene - what now remaineth here , What ...
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... plain , the Gulf , and the mountains , from the " white brow of Colonos . " Thence ride through the neighbouring olive - groves of the Academy , watered by the Cephis- sus , and so to the pass of Daphne . Then return to the Piraus , and ...
... plain , the Gulf , and the mountains , from the " white brow of Colonos . " Thence ride through the neighbouring olive - groves of the Academy , watered by the Cephis- sus , and so to the pass of Daphne . Then return to the Piraus , and ...
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Acarnania Acropolis Agora Albanian ancient city antiquity appears architecture ascends Athenian Athens Attica beautiful Boeotia building built called castle celebrated Cephalonia Cephissus Chalcis chief church citadel coast columns Corfu Corinth Crete crosses Delphi descends Doric eastern Eleusis English entrance Erechtheum Euboea feet foot fortress Galaxidi gate Greece Greek Gulf harbour height Hellenic hill Homer houses inhabitants Ionian Islands isthmus Ithaca khan lake land lofty marble Mesolonghi miles modern monastery Mount Mount Athos mountains Nauplia nearly neighbouring northern occupied Parnassus Parthenon Pasha pass Patras Pausanias Peloponnesus picturesque Piræus plain port portico probably Propylæa remains ridge river road rock rocky Roman round route ruins Santa Maura scenery shore side situated slope southern stone Strabo summit tains temple theatre Thebes thence Theseus tion tower town traces traveller Turkish Turks valley Venetian village Vostitza walls western whence whole Zante
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Page 235 - Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move: Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still let me love! 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.
Page 304 - 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...
Page 195 - 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 304 - 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 304 - Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own.
Page 116 - 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...
Page 304 - 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?
Page 235 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
Page 304 - 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. The...
Page 304 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!