The Story of GreeceG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1885 - 515 من الصفحات |
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Achaians Achilles Ægæan Alcibiades allies ancient Apollo Argos Aristides army Asia Minor Astyages Athenians Athens Attica Barbarians battle beautiful became began Boeotia called child citizens Cleisthenes coast command Corinth Corinthians Croesus Cronus Cyrus Daríus death Delphi Dorians dream earth enemies father fell fight fleet fought gave glory goddess gods Greece Greeks grew hand Harpagus head heaven Hellas Hellenes Hellespont Herodotus honor hundred Ionian island king Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land League lived Lycurgus Mardonius Megacles mighty Miletus mountains never nians noble Odysseus oligarchy oracle Pausanias Pelopidas Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Periander Pericles Persians Phoenicians Pisistratus Polycrates rich sail Salamis Samos seized sent ships Socrates Solon Sparta stood story tell temple Thebans Thebes thee Themistocles Theseus Thessaly thing thou thought told took town Trojan Troy tyrant victory wonderful words Xerxes youth Zeus
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الصفحة 164 - 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.
الصفحة 164 - 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...
الصفحة 359 - 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?
الصفحة 349 - O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old /Egina'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.
الصفحة 264 - 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...
الصفحة 349 - 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!
الصفحة 164 - Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own: 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...
الصفحة 339 - Upon this, Xerxes, who had no means of surmising the truth— namely, that the Spartans were preparing to do or die manfully— but thought it laughable that they should be engaged in such employments, sent and called to his presence Demaratus the son of Ariston, who still remained with the army.
الصفحة 165 - Phoebus challenged for his own : 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...
الصفحة 300 - wherefore they neglected him so entirely, when he was kindly disposed towards them, and had often helped them in times past, and would do so again in time to come ? " The Athenians, entirely believing in the truth of this report, as soon as their affairs were once more in good order, set up a temple to Pan...