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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... miles across the isthmus the Company provides carriages ; and at Calamaki , on the Gulf of Salamis , another steam - packet will be found wherein to proceed to Athens ( Piræus ) . ( 2. ) Once a week , for Corfu , by the coasts of ...
... miles across the isthmus the Company provides carriages ; and at Calamaki , on the Gulf of Salamis , another steam - packet will be found wherein to proceed to Athens ( Piræus ) . ( 2. ) Once a week , for Corfu , by the coasts of ...
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... miles a - day that is , from 7 to 8 hours ; though , with the menzil , or post - horses of Turkey , 60 or 80 miles a day may be accomplished , by changing at stages varying from 15 to 20 miles from each other . In all probability , many ...
... miles a - day that is , from 7 to 8 hours ; though , with the menzil , or post - horses of Turkey , 60 or 80 miles a day may be accomplished , by changing at stages varying from 15 to 20 miles from each other . In all probability , many ...
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... miles , and connecting the Adriatic with the Egean . The civil wars , and the other causes which led also to the depopulation of Greece , had rendered Epirus almost a waste in the time of Strabo ; and , under the Byzantine emperors , a ...
... miles , and connecting the Adriatic with the Egean . The civil wars , and the other causes which led also to the depopulation of Greece , had rendered Epirus almost a waste in the time of Strabo ; and , under the Byzantine emperors , a ...
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... Miles . Population . ( in 1871. ) Corfu 227 72,466 Cephalonia 348 67,509 Zante 156 44,557 Santa Maura 180 20,892 Ithaca 45 9,873 Cerigo 118 10,637 Paxo 26 3,582 Total 1,100 229,516 Besides the above seven islands , there are a number of ...
... Miles . Population . ( in 1871. ) Corfu 227 72,466 Cephalonia 348 67,509 Zante 156 44,557 Santa Maura 180 20,892 Ithaca 45 9,873 Cerigo 118 10,637 Paxo 26 3,582 Total 1,100 229,516 Besides the above seven islands , there are a number of ...
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... miles ; the breadth is greatest in the N. , where it is nearly 20 miles , but it gradually tapers towards its S. ex- tremity . The historical name of Cor- About B.C. 734 a colony was planted cyra appears first in ' Herodotus . ' here by ...
... miles ; the breadth is greatest in the N. , where it is nearly 20 miles , but it gradually tapers towards its S. ex- tremity . The historical name of Cor- About B.C. 734 a colony was planted cyra appears first in ' Herodotus . ' here by ...
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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?