A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece: During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806, Volumen1Rodwell & Martin, 1819 - 587 páginas |
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... situated on whole . length of coast , which shews that it must have been extremely populous . He also asserts that there are more than a thousand islands near the Illyrian shore , separated from each other by shallow and narrow friths ...
... situated on whole . length of coast , which shews that it must have been extremely populous . He also asserts that there are more than a thousand islands near the Illyrian shore , separated from each other by shallow and narrow friths ...
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... situated on a peninsula , but separated from the con- tinent by an artificial canal . The fortifications are strong , and are built , as well as the houses , of the fine close - grained calcareous stone , of which the coast of Istria ...
... situated on a peninsula , but separated from the con- tinent by an artificial canal . The fortifications are strong , and are built , as well as the houses , of the fine close - grained calcareous stone , of which the coast of Istria ...
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... situated near the sea , and neatly built of the fine stone of the island . Oppo- site Zuri , on the Dalmatian side , is the island called Rachen ; which , although of considerable size , has not the smallest appearance of cultivation ...
... situated near the sea , and neatly built of the fine stone of the island . Oppo- site Zuri , on the Dalmatian side , is the island called Rachen ; which , although of considerable size , has not the smallest appearance of cultivation ...
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... situated in a small but commodious bay , formed by two rocky promontories covered with verdure . The houses are built with stone , and are interspersed with trees , which gives the town a beautiful appearance . The general style of the ...
... situated in a small but commodious bay , formed by two rocky promontories covered with verdure . The houses are built with stone , and are interspersed with trees , which gives the town a beautiful appearance . The general style of the ...
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... situated round a circular port , enriched with all the lively accompaniments of verdure and cultivation . During the night we entered the channel of Stagno , a narrow frith between the peninsula of Sabioncello and the long and narrow ...
... situated round a circular port , enriched with all the lively accompaniments of verdure and cultivation . During the night we entered the channel of Stagno , a narrow frith between the peninsula of Sabioncello and the long and narrow ...
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Página 397 - 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, 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...
Página 370 - Of these the sides adorn'd with swords of gold, That glittering gay, from silver belts depend. Now all at once they rise, at once descend...
Página 397 - Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next...
Página 38 - Simulacrum deae non effigie humana, continuus orbis latiore initio tenuem in ambitum metae modo exsurgens, set ratio in obscuro.
Página 560 - Asia rediens cum ab Aegina Megaram versus navigarem, coepi regiones circumcirca prospicere. Post me erat Aegina, ante me Megara, dextra Piraeus, sinistra Corinthus, quae oppida quodam tempore florentissima fuerunt, nunc prostrata et diruta ante oculos iacent.
Página 370 - And, rapid as it runs, the single spokes are lost. The gazing multitudes admire around; Two active tumblers in the centre bound; Now high, now low, their pliant limbs they bend: And general songs the sprightly revel end.
Página 329 - ... is recovered and repaid in the duration of the performance. Hence we have the more reason to wonder that the structures raised by Pericles should be built in so short a time, and yet built for ages; for as each of them, as soon as finished, had the venerable air of antiquity, so, now they are old, they have the freshness of a modern building. A bloom is diffused over them, which preserves their aspect untarnished by time, as if they were animated with a spirit of perpetual youth and unfading...
Página 93 - ... them thirty words more ; but if any of the boys were out or imperfect, he was corrected by the next, who was always very exact in observing him, and he his neighbour, till the whole number of words were read. So that the thirty scholars lying all of them at catch, and ready to take...
Página 323 - At first sight it rather disappointed my expectations, and appeared less than its fame. The eye, however, soon became filled with the magnitude of its dimensions, the beauty of its materials, the exquisite perfection of its symmetry, and the harmonious analogy of its proportions. It is the most unrivalled triumph of sculpture and architecture that the world ever saw. The delight which it inspires on a superficial view is heightened in proportion as it is attentively surveyed. If we admire the whole...
Página 436 - THESMOTHET^E : who returned it to them with another tablet, whereon was inscribed the letter of one of the courts, as the lots had directed. These tablets they carried to the crier of the several courts signified by the letters, who thereupon gave to every man a tablet inscribed with his own name...