Travels in Europe and the East ...: In the Years 1834, '35, '36, '37, '38, '39, '40, and '41Harper & Brothers, 1845 - 452 páginas |
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Página 171
... Turks . From my own observation , not only in Athens , but in extensive journeys in the interior , I am convinced that Mr. and Mrs. Hill are the greatest benefactors living to modern Greece . They are doing more for the revival of this ...
... Turks . From my own observation , not only in Athens , but in extensive journeys in the interior , I am convinced that Mr. and Mrs. Hill are the greatest benefactors living to modern Greece . They are doing more for the revival of this ...
Página 173
... Turkish veil , not tied , but thrown over the head ; large , loose pantaloons , partly covered by a very short , embroidered petticoat ; a jacket fitting closely to the bust , with open sleeves , showing lacework beneath , over which ...
... Turkish veil , not tied , but thrown over the head ; large , loose pantaloons , partly covered by a very short , embroidered petticoat ; a jacket fitting closely to the bust , with open sleeves , showing lacework beneath , over which ...
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... Turk tore up the pavement , which was of Pentelican marble , to make lime of it ! Of all that there is left of the ancient glories of Athens , the temple of Theseus is the most perfect . This , how- ever , and the Parthenon and ...
... Turk tore up the pavement , which was of Pentelican marble , to make lime of it ! Of all that there is left of the ancient glories of Athens , the temple of Theseus is the most perfect . This , how- ever , and the Parthenon and ...
Página 185
... Turks commenced to de- stroy this temple , in order to make a mosque of it . The Greeks procured from Constantinople an order inter- dicting them . Two columns near the last were shat- tered by the earthquake at Athens in 1807. In 1821 ...
... Turks commenced to de- stroy this temple , in order to make a mosque of it . The Greeks procured from Constantinople an order inter- dicting them . Two columns near the last were shat- tered by the earthquake at Athens in 1807. In 1821 ...
Página 186
... Turks . While engaged in this , he has found that he is opening a rich mine of buried treasures , which may prove as important in elucidating the ancient his- tory of Greece , as Pompeii has been in introducing us to an intimate ...
... Turks . While engaged in this , he has found that he is opening a rich mine of buried treasures , which may prove as important in elucidating the ancient his- tory of Greece , as Pompeii has been in introducing us to an intimate ...
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Página 197 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul...
Página 199 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things...
Página 306 - 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 crush'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Página 174 - Salamis ! Their azure arches, through the long expanse, More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints along their summits driven Mark his gay course, and own the hues of Heaven ; Till darkly shaded from the land, and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Página 214 - She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry, The heartless luxury of the tomb; But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone...
Página 215 - Of thee her babes' first lisping tells; For thine her evening prayer is said, At palace couch and cottage bed; Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the Joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth...
Página 306 - Ionian blast, Hail the bright clime of battle and of song; Long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore; Boast of the aged! lesson of the young! Which sages venerate and bards adore, As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore.
Página 235 - The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow; The fiery Greek, his red pursuing spear; Mountains above, Earth's, Ocean's plain below ; Death in the front, Destruction in the rear ! Such was the scene — what now remaineth here?
Página 173 - O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old /Egina's rock, and Idra's isle, The god of gladness sheds his parting smile; O'er his own regions lingering, loves to shine, Though there his altars are no more divine.
Página 27 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,* Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rums gray.