Elements of Physical and Classical GeographyW. Blackwood & Son, 1854 - 192 pages |
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... GRAECIA . * Salve , magna parens frugum , Saturnia Tellus , Magna virûm ! Tibi res antiquae laudis et artis Ingredior . - VIRG . GEORG . II . 173 . ITALIA , in the widest acceptation of the word , in which , however , it was not used ...
... GRAECIA . * Salve , magna parens frugum , Saturnia Tellus , Magna virûm ! Tibi res antiquae laudis et artis Ingredior . - VIRG . GEORG . II . 173 . ITALIA , in the widest acceptation of the word , in which , however , it was not used ...
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... GRAECIA . At a little distance across the bay on which Naples stands , is Vesuvius , a volcano , of which the first eruption upon record took place A. D. 79 ; * and it has been ever since the only active Their wines of Setia , Cales ...
... GRAECIA . At a little distance across the bay on which Naples stands , is Vesuvius , a volcano , of which the first eruption upon record took place A. D. 79 ; * and it has been ever since the only active Their wines of Setia , Cales ...
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... GRAECIA ; Sybaris , proverbial for the luxury and effeminacy of its inhabitants ; —a reproach which has passed iuto our own language in the use of the word ' Sybarite . ' In the bay , but beyond the limits of Lucania , was Tarentum , on ...
... GRAECIA ; Sybaris , proverbial for the luxury and effeminacy of its inhabitants ; —a reproach which has passed iuto our own language in the use of the word ' Sybarite . ' In the bay , but beyond the limits of Lucania , was Tarentum , on ...
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... mountain rears its head unsung . " 1 Ibis Liburnis inter alta navium , Amice , propugnacula , Paratus omne Caesaris periculum Subire , Maecenas , tuo . - HOR . Epod . 1. 1 . VI . GRAECIA vel HELLAS . Haec cuncta Graecia , 52 ...
... mountain rears its head unsung . " 1 Ibis Liburnis inter alta navium , Amice , propugnacula , Paratus omne Caesaris periculum Subire , Maecenas , tuo . - HOR . Epod . 1. 1 . VI . GRAECIA vel HELLAS . Haec cuncta Graecia , 52 ...
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James Pillans. VI . GRAECIA vel HELLAS . Haec cuncta Graecia , quae famâ , quae gloriâ , quae doctrinâ , quae plurimis artibus , quae etiam imperio et bellicâ virtute , floruit , parvum quendam locum in Europa tenet semperque tenuit ...
James Pillans. VI . GRAECIA vel HELLAS . Haec cuncta Graecia , quae famâ , quae gloriâ , quae doctrinâ , quae plurimis artibus , quae etiam imperio et bellicâ virtute , floruit , parvum quendam locum in Europa tenet semperque tenuit ...
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Page 83 - Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore...
Page 118 - Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair: now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Page 82 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? Gone, — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and passed away, — is this the whole?
Page 42 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 92 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse : Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'
Page 184 - Where erst was thickest fight, the angelic throng, And left large field, unsafe within the wind Of such commotion; such as, to set forth Great things by small, if, Nature's concord broke, Among the constellations war were sprung, Two planets, rushing from aspect malign Of fiercest opposition, in mid sky Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound.
Page 82 - 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 62 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 64 - They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands: amaze, Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains upward turned; Till on those cursed engines...
Page xxvi - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.