 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 472 pages
...man ; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Qihhon goes on : " And that his pupils, jEschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism...with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects." Now then, reader, you have arrived at that station from which you overlook the whole of Greek Literature,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 576 pages
...representations of the Oedipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Euripides ; and that his pupils j'Eschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism...with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects. 1 * 4 The ingenuous youth of Attica enjoyed the benefits of their domestic education, which was communicated... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 504 pages
..."PARADISE REGAINED." Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the Aegean 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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English language - 1905 - 394 pages
...terminus, Gibbon goes on : " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the erown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master...with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects." 22. Now then, reader, you have arrived at that station from which you overlook the whole of Greek Literature,... | |
 | Thomas George Tucker - Athens (Greece) - 1907 - 238 pages
...grieves that the rocks now show through the surface like the bones in an emaciated body. Says Milton : Where on the Aegean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the' air, and light the soil. That lightness of the soil, however, is no compliment. Nevertheless, by careful... | |
 | Charles Rochester Eastman - Fishes, Fossil - 1907 - 290 pages
...character and habits, or to attempt to account for that civilization which flourished, as Milton says Where on the Aegean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, it is above all things imperative to understand the conditions of Attic soil and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...representations of the CEdipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Euripides ; and that his pupils .,-Eschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism...Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.5 The ingenuous youth of Attica enjoyed the benefits of their domestic education, which was communicated... | |
 | Edward Adolf Sonnenschein - English language - 1917 - 450 pages
...clime to clime, Hear thy myriad laureates hail thee monarch in their woodland rhyme. TENNYSON. 20. Behold Where on. the Aegean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts. MILTON. AGREEMENT OF RELATIVE PRONOUNS... | |
 | Lane Cooper - Greece - 1917 - 330 pages
...advanced at the head of the civilization of the world. ' IV FROM PARADISE REGAINED 1 BY JOHN MILTON Behold Where on the Aegean 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,... | |
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So far in relation to the upper terminus of the long man; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Gibbon goes on: " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus,... 
