Travels in Europe and the East: Embracing Observations Made During a Tour Through Great Britain... in the Years 1834, '35, '36, '37, '38, '39, '40, and '41Harper & Brothers, 1842 - 452 páginas |
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... Persian , the Greek , and the Roman , and the Saracen , ultimately into the possession of Northern and Western Europe - will , in all probability , continue its onward course to this other and American hemisphere , to whom PREFACE . vii.
... Persian , the Greek , and the Roman , and the Saracen , ultimately into the possession of Northern and Western Europe - will , in all probability , continue its onward course to this other and American hemisphere , to whom PREFACE . vii.
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... Persian fleet at Salamis , appropriately selected for an excavation for his tomb . Around the circuit of the harbour were magnificent armories and arsenals , which , with the walls to Athens , were all destroyed by Lysander , on the ...
... Persian fleet at Salamis , appropriately selected for an excavation for his tomb . Around the circuit of the harbour were magnificent armories and arsenals , which , with the walls to Athens , were all destroyed by Lysander , on the ...
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... by fragments of the tombs and temples destroyed by the Persians . The distance between the walls varied from 560 to 700 feet . There were two great roads between them . After reposing for the night at our hotel at Athens 168 GREECE .
... by fragments of the tombs and temples destroyed by the Persians . The distance between the walls varied from 560 to 700 feet . There were two great roads between them . After reposing for the night at our hotel at Athens 168 GREECE .
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... Persians before , or by the barbarian Saracens and Goths afterward . But we have the assurance in the march of intellectual power which characterizes our age , that Christianity will now be the preserver rather than the destroyer of ...
... Persians before , or by the barbarian Saracens and Goths afterward . But we have the assurance in the march of intellectual power which characterizes our age , that Christianity will now be the preserver rather than the destroyer of ...
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... Persians in the remote ages before the time of Pericles , and their defeat by Themistocles , had razed to the ground nearly all the then temples and buildings of the Acropolis , which were afterward recon- structed anew by the ...
... Persians in the remote ages before the time of Pericles , and their defeat by Themistocles , had razed to the ground nearly all the then temples and buildings of the Acropolis , which were afterward recon- structed anew by the ...
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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 173 - SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Página 215 - 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; For thee her poet's lyre is wreathed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed; For thee she rings the birthday bells; Of thee her babes...
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.
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Página 215 - 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...
Página 173 - O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old .lEgina'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. Descending fast the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious...
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Página 393 - THE winds are high on Helle's wave, As on that night of stormy water When Love, who sent, forgot to save The young, the beautiful, the brave, The lonely hope of Sestos