A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman ConquestHarper, 1875 - 704 páginas |
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A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest William Smith Vista completa - 1860 |
Términos y frases comunes
Achæans Acropolis Ægina Æginetans Agesilaus Alcibiades Alexander alliance allies ancient Antigonus Arcadians Argos army Asia Minor assembly assistance Athe Athenians Athens attack attempt Attica battle Boeotia called celebrated Cimon citizens Cleomenes Clisthenes coast colonies command conquest Corinth Corinthian Cyrus Darius death defeated Demetrius Demosthenes despatched despot Dionysius Dorians empire enemy envoys Epaminondas Ephors expedition favour festival fleet force formed Grecian Greece Greeks Hellenic Hellespont hoplites Ionians Ionic island king Lacedæmonians Laconia land latter Lycurgus Lysander Macedonian Mardonius Messenians mountains nians Nicias oligarchical oracle orators party Pausanias peace Peloponnesian Peloponnesian war Peloponnesus Pericles Persian Pharnabazus Philip Phocians Piræus Pisistratus Platea poems poet possession proceeded revolt sailed Salamis Samos Sardis seized sent ships Sicily siege slain Socrates Solon Sparta succeeded success Syracusans Syracuse temple Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thessaly Thrace Tissaphernes took town tribes triremes troops victory walls whilst Xerxes
Pasajes populares
Página 381 - 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 of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Página 211 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Página 407 - Close around him, and confound him, the confounder of us all, Pelt him, pummel him, and maul him ; rummage, ransack, overhaul him ; Overbear him and outbawl him ; bear him down, and bring him under. Bellow like a burst of thunder, Robber ! harpy ! sink of plunder ! Rogue and villain ! rogue and cheat ! rogue and villain, I repeat ! Oftener than I can repeat it, has the rogue and villain cheated. Close around him, left and right ; spit upon him, spurn and smite : Spit upon him as you see : spurn and...
Página 380 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by southwest, 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.
Página 107 - I'll wreathe my sword in myrtle bough, The sword that laid the tyrant low, When patriots, burning to be free, To Athens gave equality. " Harmodius, hail ! though 'reft of breath, Thou ne'er shalt feel the stroke of death; The heroes' happy isles shall be The bright abode allotted thee.
Página 189 - Hellespont to be scourged, and a set of fetters cast into it. Thus having given vent to his resentment, he ordered two bridges to be built in place of the former, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of burthen. The new work consisted of two broad causeways alongside of one another, each resting upon a row of ships, which were moored by anchors, and by cables fastened to the sides of the channel. The voyage round the rocky promontory of Mount Athos had become an...
Página 131 - ... earth still Night prevails Calm sleep the mountain tops and shady vales, The rugged cliffs and hollow glens; The wild beasts slumber in their dens ; The cattle on the hill. Deep in the sea The countless finny race and monster brood Tranquil repose. Even the busy bee Forgets her daily toil. The sileut wood No more with noisy hum of insect rings ; And all the feather'd tribes, by gentle sleep subdued, Roost in the glade, and hang their drooping wings.
Página iv - STUDENT'S OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY; from the Creation to the Return of the Jews from Captivity. Maps and Woodcuts. Post 8vo. Is. 6d. NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY. With an Introduction connecting the History of the Old and New Testaments.
Página 86 - Our commonwealth preserves its former fame : Our common people are no more the same. They that in skins and hides were rudely dress'd, Nor dreamt of law, nor sought to be redress'd By rules of right, but in the days of old Liv'd on the land, like cattle in the fold, Are now the Brave and Good ; and we, the rest, Are now the Mean and Sad* though once the best.
Página 199 - Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie...