Modern Greece: Two Lectures Delivered Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Papers on 'The Progress of Greece' and 'Byron in Greece'Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1901 - 172 oldal |
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142. oldal - tis haunted, holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon : Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crushed thy temples gone : Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
144. oldal - Proclaim thee Nature's varied favourite now ; Thy fanes, thy temples to thy surface bow, Commingling slowly with heroic earth, Broke by the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth, So perish all in turn, save well-recorded Worth ; LXXXVI.
139. oldal - We were interrupted in our debate by the entrance of a stranger, whom, on the first glance, I guessed to be an Englishman, but lately arrived at Constantinople. He wore a scarlet coat, richly embroidered with gold, in the style of an English aide-de-camp's dress uniform, with two heavy epaulettes.
73. oldal - ... Parnassus. The following is from my notes taken on the spot: — 'A bare isolated hillock of grey stone stands at the point where our path from Daulia meets the road to Delphi, and a third road that stretches to the south. There, in front, we are looking up the road down which Oedipus came [from Delphi]; we are moving in the steps of the man whom he met and slew; the road runs up a wild and frowning pass between Parnassus on the right hand and on the left the spurs of the Helicon range, which...
160. oldal - His Lordship landed in a Speziot boat, dressed in a red "uniform. He was in excellent health, and appeared moved by " the scene. I met him as he disembarked, and in a few minutes "we entered the house prepared for him — the same in which "Colonel Stanhope resided. The Colonel and Prince Mavrocor" data, with a long suite of European and Greek officers, received "him at the door.
165. oldal - I cannot calculate," he said to Gamba, during one of their latest rides together, "to what a height Greece may rise. Hitherto it has been a subject for the hymns and elegies of fanatics and enthusiasts ; but now it will draw the attention of the politician. ... At present there is little difference, in many respects, between Greeks and Turks, nor could there be; but the latter must, in the common course of events, decline in power ; and the former must as inevitably become better. . . . The English...
73. oldal - CEdipus came ; we are moving in the steps of the man whom he met and slew ; the road runs up a wild and frowning pass between Parnassus on the right hand and on the left the spurs of the Helicon range, which here approach it. Away to the south a wild and lonely valley opens, running up among the desolate places of Helicon, a vista of naked cliffs or slopes clothed with scanty herbage, a scene of inexpressible grandeur and desolation.
116. oldal - a painful dearth of men whose education has fitted them to supply some of the multifarious material wants of the country — such, for instance, as surveying, farming, road-making, and bridge-building — there is, on the other hand, a plethora of lawyers, writer, and clerks, who, in the absence of regular occupation, become agitators and coffee- house politicians.
156. oldal - ... sovereigns of Europe, or to return to a Turkish province. She has the choice only of these three alternatives. Civil war is but a road which leads to the two latter. If she is desirous of the fate of...
145. oldal - WTiere is the foe that ever saw their back ? Who can so well the toil of war endure? Their native fastnesses not more secure Than they in doubtful time of troublous need: Their wrath how deadly! but...