 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...south-west ; behold Wnere on the JEgpun 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 ; I Satan, persisting... | |
 | Charles Peter Mason - 1858 - 216 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. A merrier man, Within... | |
 | 1859 - 984 pages
...Regained, (Bk. ir.) ' ' 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." This was the city where... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 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... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1860 - 718 pages
...southwest behold, Where on the ^!gean 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... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1861 - 432 pages
...Milton : 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... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - History, Ancient - 1861 - 268 pages
...ALC1BIADES SICILIAN EXPEDITION ifiGOSPOTAMOS— ATHENS TAKEN. On the jEgean shore a city stands — 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. MILTON. THE retreat of... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1861 - 486 pages
...Milton : Behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and Hght 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... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1861 - 760 pages
...behold, Where on the ..-Kevan 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, CITY OF ATHENS. 383 Or hospitable, in her swect recess, City or euburbnn, .1 ii.limi walks and shades.... | |
 | Mellen Chamberlain - United States - 1898 - 498 pages
...eminent for good order, for honest government, and for the prosperity of its people — make it ' ' Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable ; " nor did it change his determination or his conduct by a hair's breadth when he foresaw,... | |
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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... 
