Winter evenings at college, a description of the manners [&c.] of the ancient Greeks, by a clergyman [B.T.H. Cole]. |
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الصفحة 36 - We swear," said the associated states, " never to destroy the Amphictyonic towns; not ever to divert, either in peace or war, the springs or streams necessary to supply their wants: if any power should dare to attempt it, we will march against that power, and destroy its cities. Should impious men seize on the offerings in the temple of Apollo, we swear to employ our feet, our arms, our voices, and all our powers, against them and their accomplices.
الصفحة 189 - ... the right of a person facing the altar; and so Cunningly contrived as to have a small aperture, easily concealed, and level with the surface of the rock. This was barely large enough to admit the entrance of a single person; who, having descended into the narrow passage, might creep along...
الصفحة 174 - ... was as thick as one man, and placed a cubit's distance from the rest ; the weight hung (as was customary), upon the hinder part, was no less than one thousand and five hundred talents ; when it was removed from one place to another, it was not taken in pieces ; an hundred and fifty yoke of oxen, or three hundred pair of horses and mules laboured in drawing it ; and no less than fifteen hundred men employed their utmost strength in forcing it against the walls. At other times, we find these rams...
الصفحة 229 - ... was filled with spicy odours from numberless aromatic plants covering the soil. A perennial fountain, gushing from the side of a rock, poured down its clear and babbling waters into the rivulet below. A thick grove almost concealed the monastery ; and every tree that contributed to its beauty or luxuriance appeared to be the wild and spontaneous produce of the mountain. Nothing interrupted the still silence of this solitude, but the humming of bees, and the •ound of falling waters.
الصفحة 245 - ... length, twenty-two feet six inches. Upon the top of the entablature, on the western side of the principal group, is shewn the dwelling of a hermit, who fixed his solitary abode upon this eminence, and dedicated his life entirely to the contemplation of the sublime objects by which his mansion was every where surrounded.
الصفحة 230 - Helicon, the solitudes of which are in the highest degree beautiful : every declivity of the mountain is covered with luxuriant shrubs, or tenanted by browsing flocks ; while the pipe of the shepherd, mingling its sound with that of the bells upon the goats and the sheep, is heard at intervals among the rocks. Dr. Clarke conceived that he could here ascertain the fountains of Aganippe and Helicon, and the Grove of the Muses. Beyond Helicon lie the plain and city of Livadia, the latter of which has...
الصفحة 231 - ... beautiful : all above is grand and striking ; and every declivity of the mountain is covered with luxuriant shrubs, or pastured by browsing flocks...
الصفحة 215 - that it is very good and cool, fit to quench the thirst of those hot-brained poets who in their bacchanals spare neither God nor man, and to whom nothing is so sacred but they will venture to profane it...
الصفحة 93 - MW-«, ie to the sea, you that are initiated; because (I suppose) they were commanded to purify themselves by washing in the sea. 3. Upon the third they offered sacrifices, which...
الصفحة 228 - ... tower — upon an eminence in front. The air was filled with spicy odours from numberless aromatic plants covering the soil. A perennial fountain, gushing from the side of a rock, poured down its clear and babbling waters into the rivulet below. A thick grove almost concealed the monastery...