Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, the Kingdom of Greece, the Islands of the Aegean Sea, with Albania, Thessaly, and MacedoniaJ. Murray, 1854 - 460 oldal |
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3. oldal
... seen that no small portion of the pleasures of Eastern travel arises from sheer hardship and privation , which increase so much our real enjoyments , by endowing us with a frame of mind and body at once to enjoy and to endure . It is ...
... seen that no small portion of the pleasures of Eastern travel arises from sheer hardship and privation , which increase so much our real enjoyments , by endowing us with a frame of mind and body at once to enjoy and to endure . It is ...
13. oldal
... seen that it is more dangerous by night than by day , and in autumn than at any other season . Bishop Heber mentions that in some parts of India the noxious vapour making its appearance in the evening is called by the natives essence of ...
... seen that it is more dangerous by night than by day , and in autumn than at any other season . Bishop Heber mentions that in some parts of India the noxious vapour making its appearance in the evening is called by the natives essence of ...
14. oldal
... seen , the mode of travelling in the interior of Greece and of European Turkey is on horseback , the distances being calculated by an hour's march of a caravan , according to the custom established among all Eastern nations . One hour ...
... seen , the mode of travelling in the interior of Greece and of European Turkey is on horseback , the distances being calculated by an hour's march of a caravan , according to the custom established among all Eastern nations . One hour ...
18. oldal
... seen in Boeotia . Indeed , one of the many attractions of a journey in Greece is the variety of birds unknown or rarely seen in England , but which constantly attract observation there . In the interior , the horizon is rarely without ...
... seen in Boeotia . Indeed , one of the many attractions of a journey in Greece is the variety of birds unknown or rarely seen in England , but which constantly attract observation there . In the interior , the horizon is rarely without ...
42. oldal
... seen Greece twenty years since , or during the war of 1824 to 1830 , and the era of piracy just afterwards . Their estimate must necessarily be fallacious , for , touching rapidly in many parts , they have only seen the mixed population ...
... seen Greece twenty years since , or during the war of 1824 to 1830 , and the era of piracy just afterwards . Their estimate must necessarily be fallacious , for , touching rapidly in many parts , they have only seen the mixed population ...
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Acarnania Acropolis Agora Albanian ancient city antiquity appears architecture ascends Athenian Athens Attica beautiful Boeotia building built called castle celebrated Cephalonia Cephissus Chalcis chief church citadel coast columns Corfu Corinth Crete crosses Delphi descends Doric eastern Eleusis English entrance Erechtheum Euboea feet foot fortress Galaxidi gate Greece Greek Gulf harbour height Hellenic hill Homer houses inhabitants Ionian Islands isthmus Ithaca khan lake land lofty marble Mesolonghi miles modern monastery Mount Mount Athos mountains Nauplia nearly neighbouring northern occupied Parnassus Parthenon Pasha pass Patras Pausanias Peloponnesus picturesque Piræus plain port portico probably Propylæa remains ridge river road rock rocky Roman round route ruins Santa Maura scenery shore side situated slope southern stone Strabo summit tains temple theatre Thebes thence Theseus tion tower town traces traveller Turkish Turks valley Venetian village Vostitza walls western whence whole Zante
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235. oldal - Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move: Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still let me love! My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile.
304. oldal - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one...
195. oldal - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
304. oldal - 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?
304. oldal - Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own.
116. 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...
304. oldal - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
235. oldal - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
304. oldal - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The...
304. oldal - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!