 | John Addington Symonds - 1898 - 408 pagini
...here only, could stand the city sung by Milton : — 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. We who believe in no... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 234 pagini
...on the /Egean shore a city stands. Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eve 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 560 pagini
...; behold Where on the JEgean 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 224 pagini
...: "Of which all Europe rings from side to side." 3. Mother of Arts. Milton, Par. Reg., iv. 240 : " Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous, wild, Or hospitable." (Milton applying the name differently.) 4. our guardian, in the days of the Roman... | |
 | Morrison Isaac Swift - 1899 - 514 pagini
...people of their power and pivileges.' These things happened in a city which Milton has called "... the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits," yet all the shrewdness of this shrewd race was not qualified to stand against the arts of flattery... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1900 - 308 pagini
...of intellect: " 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, TEMPLE OF NIKE APTEROS. City or suburban, studious walks and shades.... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 pagini
...Athens. "Behold Where on the jEgean 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 pagini
...south-west, behold, Where on the .itgean 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... | |
 | E. E. G. - 1903 - 748 pagini
...Acropolis — grew up in time a city, violet-crowned — " 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." Here, in less than one line, a poet has summed up what would take ordinary mortals a page... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 pagini
...south-west, behold, Where on the Aegean 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... | |
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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... 
