A Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, Continental Greece, Athens, and the Peloponnesus, the Islands of the Ægean Sea, Albania, Thessaly, and MacedoniaJ. Murray, 1872 - 505 من الصفحات |
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... district the stranger may be wandering - whether cruising in shade and sunshine among the scattered Cyclades , or tracing his difficult way among the rocks and along the watercourses of the Pelo- ponnesus , or looking up to where the ...
... district the stranger may be wandering - whether cruising in shade and sunshine among the scattered Cyclades , or tracing his difficult way among the rocks and along the watercourses of the Pelo- ponnesus , or looking up to where the ...
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... district to district , so as to carry as little coin as possible with them . The bag of dollars and smaller change must be carefully watched by day , and used as a pillow by night . ( For money , see Special Introductions . ) Passports ...
... district to district , so as to carry as little coin as possible with them . The bag of dollars and smaller change must be carefully watched by day , and used as a pillow by night . ( For money , see Special Introductions . ) Passports ...
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... districts which he intends to visit , the number of his attendants , and of the horses which he requires ; with any other directions which he may consider useful . It will be satisfactory , moreover , to obtain , if possible , a ...
... districts which he intends to visit , the number of his attendants , and of the horses which he requires ; with any other directions which he may consider useful . It will be satisfactory , moreover , to obtain , if possible , a ...
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... districts , advancing towards the mountainous regions as the heat increases . April and May are decidedly the best months , as being free from the burning heats of summer , and also , in a great measure , from liability to sudden and ...
... districts , advancing towards the mountainous regions as the heat increases . April and May are decidedly the best months , as being free from the burning heats of summer , and also , in a great measure , from liability to sudden and ...
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... districts than horses . In crossing a river on a warm day , the rider should be always on his guard against the trick that mules have of lying down in the middle of the water , so suddenly as to give him no time to save himself from ...
... districts than horses . In crossing a river on a warm day , the rider should be always on his guard against the trick that mules have of lying down in the middle of the water , so suddenly as to give him no time to save himself from ...
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Acarnania Acropolis Albanian ancient city antiquity ascends Athenian Athens Athos Attica beautiful Boeotia building built called castle Cephalonia Chalkis chief Christian church coast columns Constantinople Corfu Corinth Crete crosses descends district Doric eastern English entrance Euboea fortress gate Greece Greek Gulf harbour height Hellenic hill Homer Hotel houses inhabitants Ionian Ionian Islands island isthmus Joannina Kalamata khan Kyparissia lake marble Mesolonghi Messrs miles modern monastery Mount Mount Athos mountains Nauplia nearly neighbouring northern occupied Parthenon Pasha pass Patras Pausanias Peloponnesus peninsula picturesque Piræus plain port portico Prevesa probably Propylæa remains ridge river road rock rocky Roman round route ruins Salonica scenery shore side situated slope Sparta steamer steep stone Strabo summit Syra tains Taygetus temple theatre thence Theseus Thessaly tion towers town traces traveller Turkish Turks valley Venetian village Vostitza walls whence Zante
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الصفحة 325 - 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 325 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
الصفحة 325 - Must we but blush?— Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no;— the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one, arise,— we come, we come!
الصفحة 322 - Out upon Time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
الصفحة 138 - 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 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 416 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
الصفحة 68 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
الصفحة 325 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
الصفحة 138 - 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 325 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?