| Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 534 páginas
...simplicity in them, that deserves a better translation than I can give. On the Tomb of Themistocles. By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand : By this directed to tiiy native shore The merchant shall convey his freighted store ; And when our fleets are summon'd... | |
| George Crabb - 1826 - 768 páginas
...steep, so terrible, appear? the depth. LANSDOWNE. A margin is the border of a book or a piece of water ; By the sea's margin on the watery strand Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand. CUMBERLAND. A verge is the extreme border of a place ; To the earth's utmost verge I will pursue him... | |
| Joseph Warren Fabens - 1853 - 264 páginas
...veins, and great men have desired that their last sleep might be within the sound of its surgings. " By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand." Can it be possible that there is concealed within its depths, a life, massive, solemn, eternal, yet... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 páginas
...elegar.t and pathetic simplicity in them, that deserves a better translation than I can give : — ' By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall gtand: By this directed to thy native shore, The merchant shall convey his freighted store ; And when... | |
| William Smith - 1861 - 760 páginas
...tomb was shown upon the promontory at the right hand of the entrance of the great harbour of Piraeus. This was doubtless the invention of a later age ;...epigram, supposed to have been inscribed upon his tornb : — "By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand: By... | |
| William Smith - 1863 - 780 páginas
...tomb was shown upon the promontory at the right hand of the entrance of the great harbour of Piraeus. This was doubtless the invention of a later age ;...sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Theniistocles, shall stand: By this directed to thy native shore The merchant shall convey his freighted... | |
| Cornelius Conway Felton - 1867 - 582 páginas
...where that great event took place. An ancient inscription commemorated the illustrious Athenian : — " By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand ; By this direction, to thy native shore The merchant shall convey his freighted store ; And when our fleets... | |
| Cornelius Conway Felton - 1867 - 566 páginas
...where that great event took place. An ancient inscription commemorated the illustrious Athenian: — " By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand ; By this direction, to thy native shore The merchant shall convey his freighted store ; And when our fleets... | |
| Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 páginas
...upon the promontory at the right hand of the entrance of the great harbour of Piraeus. This may be the invention of a later age ; but the imagination...of the founder of the maritime greatness of Athens. See " The Tale of the Great Persian War," by Rev. GW Cox. So also BY the sea's margin, on the watery... | |
| William Smith - 1870 - 750 páginas
...tomb was shown upon the promontory at the right hand of the entrance of the great harbour of Pirseus. This was doubtless the invention of a later age ;...: — "By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Toy monument, Themistocles, shall stand: By this directed to thy native shore The merchant shall convey... | |
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