Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion to CreteG P. Putnam's Sons, 1859 - 426 oldal |
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Acropolis ancient appearance arches Arsakeion Athens beautiful blue Braisted building built Cephissus character Church Corinth Court Cretan Crete crossed crowd crowned dark descended distance domes droshkies entered Erymanthus Euboea Europe eyes face feet foot forests fortress François fustanella gardens German gorge Grecian Greece Greek Gulf Gulf of Corinth Hadji Bey hand head Heracleon hills horses hundred Hymettus inclosed island Kalamaki Kalavryta khan Khania King Kremlin landscape latter looked marble miles morning Moscow mountain nearly night olive palace Parthenon Pasha passed peasants Petersburg picture picturesque pine plain priest rain reached rich ridge road rock rose rubles ruins Russian Sfakia shore side silver snow southern square steamer stone stream streets Stylida summit Taygetus temple Thessaly thousand tion took towers town traveller trees Turkish Turks valley Venetian versts village walls wild wind wine
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221. oldal - The too clear web, and thy dumb sister's shame ? Dost thou once more assay Thy flight, and feel come over thee, Poor fugitive, the feathery change Once more, and once more seem to make resound With love and hate, triumph and agony, Lone Daulis, and the high Cephissian vale?
199. oldal - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
382. oldal - ... the regular inhabitants. For example, the watchmen on the roof, placed there for different purposes — among others to keep the water in the tanks from freezing during the winter, by casting in red-hot balls — built themselves huts between the chimneys, took their wives and children there, and even kept poultry and goats, who fed on the grass of the roof ! It is said that at last some cows were introduced, but this abuse had been corrected before the palace was burnt.
183. oldal - Hills, through a wild dell between two ridges, which were covered to the summit with magnificent groves of oak. Starry blue flowers, violets and pink crocuses spangled the banks as we wound onward, between the great trunks. The temple of Apollo Epicurius stands...
334. oldal - Burns like a fringe of fire," fills up the background. The Tartar towers of the Kremlin wall shoot up, on our left, from under the edge of the platform whereon we stand, and away and beyond them glitters the southern part of the wonderful city — a vast semicircle of red, green, and gold. I know not when this picture is most beautiful — when it blinds you in the glare of sunshine, when the shadows of clouds soften its piercing colors, and extinguish half its reflected fires, when evening wraps...
181. oldal - Lycaeus and the gorge of the Neda, and lodged at the little village of Tragoge, on the frontiers of Arcadia. Our experience of Grecian highways was pleasantly increased by finding fields plowed directly across our road, fences of dried furze built over it, and ditches cutting it at all angles. Sometimes all trace of it would be lost for half a mile, and we were obliged to ride over the growing crops until we could find a bit of fresh trail. The bridle-path over Mount Lycaeus was steep and bad, but...
281. oldal - A mile and a half of slow, trembling, exciting progress, and we have mounted the heaviest grade, but six hours of the same tremendous scenery await us. We pierce yet sublimer solitudes, and look on pictures of precipice and piled rock, of cavern and yawning gorge, and mountain walls, almost shutting out the day, such as no other river in Europe can show.
333. oldal - ... in private, no one interfering with the other. The chapels, owing to their narrow bases and great height, resemble flues. Their sides are covered with sacred frescoes, and all manner of ornamental painting on a golden ground, and as you look up the diminishing shaft, the colossal face of Christ, the Virgin, or the protecting Saint, stares down upon you from the hollow of the capping dome. The central tower is one hundred and twenty feet high, while the diameter of the chapel inside it cannot...
292. oldal - Heartily welcome!" saluted us in landing. Finally, at the depth of 450 feet, our journey ceased, although we were but halfway to the bottom. The remainder is a wilderness of shafts, galleries, and smaller chambers, the extent of which we could only conjecture. We then returned through scores of tortuous passages to some vaults where a lot of gnomes, naked to the hips, were busy with pick, mallet, and wedge, blocking out and separating the solid pavement. The process is quite primitive, scarcely differing...
34. oldal - ... column unmutilated ; and yet with the tawny gold of two thousand years staining its once spotless marble, sparkling with snowwhite marks of shot and shell, and with its soaring pillars...