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American ancient appearance Athens beautiful broad brought building built called columns commodore crowd dark door dress English entered expression face feeling feet five followed four frigate gardens gate German Greece Greek half hand handsome head hill horses hour hundred island Italian Italy kind king ladies land leave less light live look lovely manners marble MEDITERRANEAN miles morning mountains mounted natural never officers once palace passed perhaps Persian picture plain present received returned round ruins says scarce scene seats seemed seen ship shore side sitting soon stands steps stood street SUMMER CRUISE temple thing thought thousand took town trees Turk Turkish turned village walked walls whole wind window woman women young
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Página 223 - 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 223 - 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...
Página 218 - He taught the belief of a first cause, whose beneficence is equal to his power, the Creator and Ruler of the Universe. He inculcated the moral agency of man, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of reward and punishment.
Página 319 - The mussulman smoked calmly on, taking no more notice of us than of the white clouds curling through his beard. He might have sat for Michael Angelo's Moses. Thin, pale, calm, and of a statue-like repose of countenance and posture, with a large...
Página 317 - Their curiosity often extends to your dress, and they put out their little henna-stained fingers and pass them over the sleeve of your coat with a gurgling expression of admiration at its fineness ; or if you have rings or a watch-guard, they lift your hand or pull out your watch with no kind of scruple. I have met with several instances of this in the course of my rambles. But a day or two ago I found myself rather more than usual a subject of curiosity. I was alone in the street of embroidered...
Página 223 - Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing ; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view...
Página 197 - Greek went in with our cards. It was a small stone house of a story and a half, with a rickety flight of wooden steps at the side, and not a blade of grass or sign of a flower in court or window. If there had been but a geranium in the porch, or a rosetree by the gate, for description's sake ! Mr. Black was out— Mrs. Black was in. We walked up the creaking steps, with a Scotch terrier barking and snapping at our heels, and were met at the door by really a very pretty woman. She smiled as I apologized...
Página 196 - Maid of Athens," in the very teeth of poetry, has become Mrs. Black of Egina.' The beautiful Teresa Makri, of whom Byron asked back his heart, of whom Moore and Hobhouse, and the poet himself have written so much and so passionately, has forgotten the sweet burthen of the sweetest of love songs, and taken the...
Página 317 - ... they push him a little to get nearer the desired article. Feeling not the least timidity, except for their faces, these true children of Eve examine the goods in barter, watch the stranger's countenance, and if he takes off his glove, or pulls out his purse, take it up and look at it, without even saying
Página 369 - ... whose pinnacles dart their golden shafts from between the dark cypress-trees into the azure sky. I dwelt on them as on things I never was to behold more ; and not until the evening had deepened the veil it cast over the varied scene from orange to purple, and from purple to the sable hue of night, did I tear myself away from the impressive spot.
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean: On Board an American Frigate Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature |
| Autor | Nathaniel Parker Willis |
| Editor | T. Bosworth, 1853 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 18 Oct. 2007 |
| ISBN | 0608394467, 9780608394466 |
| Largo | 396 páginas |
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