The Story of GreeceG. P. Putnam's sons, 1892 - 515 Seiten |
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Achaians Achilles Ægæan Alcibiades allies ancient Apollo Argos Aristides army Asia Minor Astyages Athenians Athens Attica Barbarians battle beautiful became Boeotia called chariot child Cleisthenes coast Corinth Crete Croesus Cronus Cyrus Daríus death Delphi Demeter Dionysus Dorians earth enemies Euboea famous father fell fight fleet fought Gæa gave glory goddess gods Greece Greeks grew hand Harpagus heaven Hellas Hellenes Helots Herodotus Homer hundred Ionian island king Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land lived look loved Lycurgus Mardonius Megacles mighty mountains never nians noble Odysseus Olympus oracle Patroclus Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Periander Pericles Persephoné Persians Pisistratus plain Polycrates Poseidon sail Salamis seized sent shining ships Socrates Solon Sparta stood story of Greece tell temple Thebes thee Themistocles Theseus Thessaly thing thou thought Thucydides told took town Trojan Troy tyrant wonderful words Xerxes youths Zeus
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Seite 166 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with...
Seite 167 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Seite 166 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City' or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Seite 361 - 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?
Seite 351 - 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!
Seite 302 - Men of Lacedaemon, the Athenians beseech you to hasten to their aid, and not allow that state, which is the most ancient in all Greece, to be enslaved by the barbarians. Eretria, look you, is already carried away captive, and Greece weakened by the loss of no mean city.
Seite 351 - 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.
Seite 166 - There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony, in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand, and various-measured verse, jEolian charms and Dorian lyric odes, And his who gave them breath, but higher sung, Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own...
Seite 266 - Athenian, had come and seen all his splendour, and made light of it; and how whatever he had said to him had fallen out exactly as he foreshowed, although it was nothing that especially concerned him, but applied to all mankind alike, and most to those who seemed to themselves happy. Meanwhile, as he thus spoke, the pile was lighted, and the outer portion began to blaze. Then Cyrus, hearing from the interpreters what Croesus had said, relented, bethinking himself that he too was a man, and that it...