 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...  Sketches in Italy and Greece - Page 210by John Addington Symonds - 1874 - 339 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts z40 And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable,...recess. City' or suburban, studious walks and shades ; See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird z45 Trills her thick-warbled... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts 240 And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable,...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... | |
 | 1858 - 860 pages
...philosophy. The city was ireff suited for study ; it was, as our own great epic poet has described it, "Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens,...eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable : in her iweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades." fie absence of any commercial or political... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...specular mount Westward, much nearer by southwest, behold; Where on the JEgean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil; Athens,...recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attick bird Trills her thick-warbled... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...southwest, behold; Where on the Jf.gf.an shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light tlie soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And...sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shade*. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic liird Trills her... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...fabling fell, and smooth W/IM «<U»} G 2 Athens, the eye ef Greece, mother of aits And eloquencp, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or sub(irban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...specular mount, Westward, much nearer by southwest, behold; Where on the' JEgean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens,...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... | |
 | Edward Dodwell - Greece - 1819 - 686 pages
...spot, and in a transport of admiration had exclaimed— " Look !—on th' Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly ; pure the air, and light the soil; Athens:...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... | |
 | Edward Dodwell - Greece - 1819 - 680 pages
...light the soil ; 1 Plutarch's Life of Solon. ' Paradise Regained, b. 4. PANORAMA FROM THE MUSJEUM. 395 Athens : the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...behold Where on the j£gean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Atheos, flung For his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, lie* there the olive grove of Academe, Plata's retirement, where the Attic bird TrflU her thick-warbled... | |
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