 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 pages
...nearer by south-west, behold Where on the 2Egean 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 Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...associations of Athens : — Where on the J5gean 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.... | |
 | James Pillans - 1854 - 280 pages
...— ST. TH. in. 500. Behold Where on th' 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, Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...and executed with' extraordinary Where on the J2gean 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.... | |
 | Isocrates - Athens (Greece) - 1854 - 154 pages
...nearer by southwest, 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.... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 748 pages
...nearer by south-west behold, Where on the .£gean shore a city stands, Built nobly; pare the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits, CHAP. XXXIV. CITY OF ATHENS. Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Agean shore a city stands Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold 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, See there the olive grove of Academe, 1 City... | |
 | George Bancroft - German literature - 1855 - 554 pages
...associations, and concentres them " 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." It would s£ejn as if there the passion for gain had been lost in the strife for glory ; as though... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - Historians - 1855 - 402 pages
...Shall we not repeat them here? " 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.... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1855 - 724 pages
...nearer by sonthweat 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.... | |
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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... 
