Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters

Első borító
 

Kiválasztott oldalak

Tartalomjegyzék

Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése

Gyakori szavak és kifejezések

Népszerű szakaszok

308. oldal - Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And every stream in heavenly numbers flows.
184. oldal - EUROPE. nature and climate have favoured beyond all others, once the home of all art and all civilisation ? Look yourself — ask those who live there — deserted villages, uncultivated plains, banditti-haunted mountains, torpid laws, a corrupt administration, a disappearing people.
81. oldal - Between the extended earth and starry sky. But when to Ida's topmost height he came, (Fair nurse of fountains and of savage game,) Where, o'er her pointed summits proudly...
54. oldal - Christian high-altar to the East, but must be turned in the exact direction of Mecca ? Must we always dimly trace in the overlaying fretwork of gold the obliterated features of the Redeemer ? This is all assuredly forbidden by copious and cogent, even if by conflicting causes, — by old Greek memories, by young Greek aspirations, by the ambition of states and sovereigns, by the sympathy of Christendom, by the sure word of prophecy.
91. oldal - Next by Scamander's double source they bound, Where two famed fountains burst the parted ground ; This hot through scorching clefts is seen to rise, With exhalations streaming to the skies ; That the green banks in summer's heat o'erflows, Like crystal clear, and cold as winter snows...
312. oldal - Buoy'd by some inward force, he seems to swim, And feels a pinion lifting every limb. And now he shakes his great paternal spear...
263. oldal - Almost the only river in the island is just at the proper distance from the probable site of the city and palace of the king, to justify the princess Nausicaa having had resort to her chariot and to luncheon when she went with the maidens of the court to wash their garments.
189. oldal - Let me just remark, that even the impressive declaration of the Apostle, that " God dwelleth not in temples made with hands," may seem to grow in effect when we remember that the buildings to which he must have almost inevitably pointed at that very moment were the most perfect that the hands of man have ever reared, and must have comprised the Theseum below, and the Parthenon above him. It seems to have been well that " art and man's device " should be reduced to their proper level, on the very...

Bibliográfiai információk