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Achaia Acropolis Ægina Agora Alpheus ancient Apollo Arcadia architecture Argos Asopus Athenian Athens Attica battle beautiful beneath Boeotia building called centre Cephissus character citadel Citharon coast coins columns Corinth Corinthian Corinthian Gulf Decelea Deities Delphi distance Doric drapery east eastern Eleusis entrance exhibited feet figures flows frieze gate Greece Greek grove Gulf harbour Helicon Hercules hero hill Homer Hymettus inhabitants inscription Ionian Ionic Ionic order island Jupiter lake lofty Marathon marble Messenia miles Minerva modern monument Mount mountain Mycena natural northern objects Orchomenus painted Parnes Parthenon pass Pausanias peculiar pediment Peloponnesus period Persians Phidias Phocis plain Plate Poet Polygnotus promontory remains remarkable river road rock rocky Roman ruins sacred Salamis sculpture seen shore side soil southern Sparta spot stands statue stone stood stream summit Taygetus Temple Theatre Thebes Theseus Thessaly town valley vase victory walls western
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Page 103 - Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing ; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages ; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next...
Page 103 - 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...
Page 103 - 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 the sound Of bees...
Page 201 - Doric order, raised upon four steps, and intersected by a road passing through the midst of the columns, which are thirty feet in height, and support a noble pediment. From this portico two wings project about thirty feet to the west, each having three columns on the side nearest the portico in the centre. The architectural mouldings of the fabric glitter in the sun with brilliant tints of red and blue: in the centre, the coffers of its soffits are spangled with stars, and the ante of the wings are...
Page 390 - JUPITER presented to the view when the purple embroidered veil which hung before him fell to the ground and exhibited the Father of Gods and Men in all the glories of which the greatest spirits of antiquity could conceive and execute the idea. The Olympic Games were celebrated once in four years. They lasted for five days, and terminated on the full moon which succeeded the summer solstice. Contrasted with the particular...
Page 313 - A long, lofty wall spans a desolate plain ; to the north of it rises, on a distant hill, the shattered scena of a theatre ; and, to the west, the extended, though broken, line of an aqueduct connects the distant mountains, from which it tends, with the main subject of the picture, the city itself." 2 To people this city, Augustus uprooted the neighbouring mountaineers from their native homes, dragging them by his arbitrary compulsion " from their healthy hills to this low and swampy plain.
Page 350 - Thamus ! who, giving ear to the cry, was bidden (for he was pilot of the ship), when he came near to Pelodes " (the Bay of Butrinto) " to tell that the great god Pan was dead ; which he doubting to do, yet for that when he came to Pelodes there was such a calm of wind that the ship stood still in...
Page 64 - The horses of the frieze in the Elgin Collection appear to live and move, to roll their eyes, to gallop, prance, and curvet ; the veins of their faces and legs seem distended with circulation ; in them are distinguished the hardness and decision of bony forms, from the elasticity of tendon and the softness of flesh. The beholder is charmed with the deer-like lightness and elegance of their make, and although the relief is not above an inch from the background, and they are so much smaller than nature,...
Page 201 - We pass along the avenue lying between two central columns of the portico, and through a corridor leading from it, and formed by three Ionic columns on each hand, and are brought in front of five doors of bronze ; the central one, which is the loftiest and broadest, being immediately before us.
Page 194 - ... objects of laborious research, but should have been familiar to him from his infancy — have sprung up, as it were, spontaneously in his mind, and have grown with his growth. Nor should the period of its remote antiquity be to him a land of shadows — a platonic cave in which unsubstantial forms move before his eyes as if he were entranced in a dream. To him the language of its mythology should have been the voice of truth.