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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... whole mass of mankind who labour for their bread and hunger for their meals . " - Urquhart . It will not be amiss in this place to say something on the subject of robbers , of whom most travellers in the East hear so much , but see so ...
... whole mass of mankind who labour for their bread and hunger for their meals . " - Urquhart . It will not be amiss in this place to say something on the subject of robbers , of whom most travellers in the East hear so much , but see so ...
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... whole apparatus may be compressed into a hat - case . A pair of calico sheets , nine feet long , sewed together at the bottom and on both sides ( No. 1 ) , are continued with muslin of the same form and size , sewed to them at their ...
... whole apparatus may be compressed into a hat - case . A pair of calico sheets , nine feet long , sewed together at the bottom and on both sides ( No. 1 ) , are continued with muslin of the same form and size , sewed to them at their ...
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... whole country . June and the early part of July may be occupied with the Islands of the Ægean Sea , the Seven Churches of Asia , and the Plain of Troy . During the rest of July and August the traveller should remain quietly at ...
... whole country . June and the early part of July may be occupied with the Islands of the Ægean Sea , the Seven Churches of Asia , and the Plain of Troy . During the rest of July and August the traveller should remain quietly at ...
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... whole , therefore , let the traveller in Greece choose the period from the middle of March to the middle of June , when the deep blue of the sky and the sea , the genial but not sultry heat , the silvery asphodels glittering in the ...
... whole , therefore , let the traveller in Greece choose the period from the middle of March to the middle of June , when the deep blue of the sky and the sea , the genial but not sultry heat , the silvery asphodels glittering in the ...
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... whole arrange- ment of their journey to them , merely mentioning the day and hour when they wish to start , and the places they intend to visit ; they have nothing to pay , and need have no bargaining or disputing during the whole tour ...
... whole arrange- ment of their journey to them , merely mentioning the day and hour when they wish to start , and the places they intend to visit ; they have nothing to pay , and need have no bargaining or disputing during the whole tour ...
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Acarnania Acropolis Agora Albanian ancient city antiquity appears architecture Argostoli ascends Athenian Athens Attica beautiful building built called castle celebrated Cephalonia Chalcis chief church citadel coast columns Constantinople Corcyra Corfu Corinth Crete crosses descends district Doric eastern English entrance Erechtheum Euboea feet fortress gate Greece Greek Gulf harbour height Hellenic hill Homer houses inhabitants Ionian Islands isthmus Italian Ithaca Joannina khan kingdom of Greece lake land lofty marble Mesolonghi miles modern monastery Mount Mount Athos mountains Nauplia nearly neighbouring northern occupied Parthenon Pasha pass Patras Pausanias Peloponnesian Peloponnesus picturesque Piræus plain population port portico present probably Propylæa remains ridge river road rock rocky Roman route ruins Santa Maura shore side situated southern stone Strabo summit tains temple theatre thence Theseus tion tower town traveller Turkish Turks valley Venetian village Vostitza walls western whence whole Zacynthus 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!