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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... separating Albania ( i . e . Epirus and a portion of ancient Illyria ) from Macedonia and Thessaly . Lateral ranges of mountains , stretching out from Pindus , encircle the central plains of Macedonia ; and others , under the names of ...
... separating Albania ( i . e . Epirus and a portion of ancient Illyria ) from Macedonia and Thessaly . Lateral ranges of mountains , stretching out from Pindus , encircle the central plains of Macedonia ; and others , under the names of ...
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... separated and gave access to the ranges of seats in theatres . PRONAOS - the porch at the entrance of the Naós , opposite the Posticum . SOFFIT a wrought surface that can be seen from below . STYLOBATE - The basis or substructure on ...
... separated and gave access to the ranges of seats in theatres . PRONAOS - the porch at the entrance of the Naós , opposite the Posticum . SOFFIT a wrought surface that can be seen from below . STYLOBATE - The basis or substructure on ...
الصفحة 33
... separated ; sometimes there is a low wooden barrier between them , corresponding to the rood - screen in Western churches . The choir is surrounded by stalls , as is also often the nave . 4. The Bema , or Sanctuary , is the ...
... separated ; sometimes there is a low wooden barrier between them , corresponding to the rood - screen in Western churches . The choir is surrounded by stalls , as is also often the nave . 4. The Bema , or Sanctuary , is the ...
الصفحة 67
... separated by a channel , only 9 m . in breadth from Corfu . 2. PAXOS ( PAXO ) . tumacy ( contumacia ) -that is to say , | plain of Troy is a poetical invention all intercourse with its coast was sub- of Virgil , and as visionary as the ...
... separated by a channel , only 9 m . in breadth from Corfu . 2. PAXOS ( PAXO ) . tumacy ( contumacia ) -that is to say , | plain of Troy is a poetical invention all intercourse with its coast was sub- of Virgil , and as visionary as the ...
الصفحة 68
... separated from here in almost incredible numbers . it by a channel averaging less than five miles across ; while the distance from the most southernly point in Cephalonia to the northernmost part of Zante is about 8 m . The size of this ...
... separated from here in almost incredible numbers . it by a channel averaging less than five miles across ; while the distance from the most southernly point in Cephalonia to the northernmost part of Zante is about 8 m . The size of this ...
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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?