 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...nearer by southwest, behold, Where on the JEge&n shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and recall'd To life prolong'd and promis'd race, I now Gladly behold thoug native to famous wite Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1855 - 126 pages
...TRIAL OF SOPHOCLES. " Behold Where on th' (Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence." Par. Eeg. 4, 237. No one, we think, can peruse the history of Athens without sometimes wishing to recall... | |
 | Henry Welsford - English language - 1848 - 498 pages
...GREEK ALPHABET. THE GREEK VERB. " On the JEgean 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 Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...nearer by south-west, behold Where on the /Egcun shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and ʄ4 /MRI_Worker.Read! native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...Behold,'' says Satan, — " Where on the JEgean 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, And hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades;... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean 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 Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Mediterranean Region - 1853 - 400 pages
...Milton's beautiful description : " Look ! on the Egean 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 Or hospitable, in her sweet recess City or suburban, studious walks or shades.... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...nearer by south-west, behold ; Where on the JDgean 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 Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...nearer by south-west, behold ; Where on the JSgean 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 Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...and executed with extraordinary Where on the /Egean sea 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 Or hospitable in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
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Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence... 
