 | William Smith - Greece - 1855 - 708 pages
...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. See there the olive grove... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...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 or suburban, studious... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - Historians - 1855 - 402 pages
...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. See there the olive grove... | |
 | John Bullock - Architecture - 1855 - 508 pages
...the capitals ot buried empires. This feeling, so profound in Jerusalem and Rome, is even more so in Athens, — " the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous \vitn, Or hospitable — " a city never so large as New York, but whose inhabitants produced within... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...wealth in unstinted profusion to rear the proud temple and the colossal statue to Pallas Athene. " 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 ; See there the olive... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...south-west; behold Where on the ^Egpan shore a city stands, Built nobly; pure the air, and light the soil j 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; 1 Satan, persisting... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...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. See there the olive grove... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...MILTON. BEHOLD Where on the .3Dgean 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 surburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1857 - 362 pages
...VI. Behold Where on the Mgsea.n 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. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...south-west behold 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, Or hospitable in her sweet recess. City or suburban, studious walks and shades ; See there the olive-grove... | |
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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, native to famous wits... 
