| Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...'ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ££gean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and...Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird 99 100 Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There, flowery hill, Hymettus with the sound... | |
| Scotland - 1837 - 898 pages
...authority — and of Milton's judicious epithet, grounded on more than a mythological talc: — . '' See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her wood- war! >lcd notes the summer long." And he feeds horses for the Olympian games on oats,' for no... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - Athens (Greece) - 1837 - 348 pages
...Chrys, ip lit7. Fra, — and it lies beneath a lovely sky. On the żEgean shore a city stands Ruilt nobly; pure the air, and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece. MILTON, PR iv. ATHENS, Feb. 1. DIOGENES 2, when he had been exiled from Sinope, migrated into the south... | |
| The London and Westminster Review April-August,1838 - 1838 - 612 pages
...philosopher of old, in Greece and Rome, addressed popular audiences, and not as now, readers in privacy:— " Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts, And eloquence,...Trills her thick-warbl'd notes the summer long ; There flowr'y hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees, industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing ;... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1838 - 292 pages
...men in far-distant lands. Listen to the apposite and elegant lines of Milton respecting that city. " Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence,...Plato's retirement, where the attic bird Trills her thick warbled notes the summer long , There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees' industrious... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1838 - 296 pages
...apposite and elegant lines of Milton respecting that city. " Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts Aod eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in...Plato's retirement, where the attic bird Trills her thick warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees' industrious... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the .ffigean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and...the soil ; Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts 240 And eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - Art, Greek - 1839 - 512 pages
...ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west hehold ; Where on the ^Egxan shore a City stands, Built nobly ; pure the air, and...Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill HYMETTUS, with the sound Of bees' industrious... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...edition and others, it was printed ' was.' Tickell made the emendation ' wast,' and Fenton adopted it. Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts 240 And eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious... | |
| John Minter Morgan - Education - 1839 - 228 pages
...reflect a brighter effulgence as it moves onward through the firmament of heaven. SAADI. CHAPTER XIII. " 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' industrious... | |
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