| Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...man ; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Qihhon goes on : " And that his pupils, jEschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism...with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects." Now then, reader, you have arrived at that station from which you overlook the whole of Greek Literature,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...representations of the Oedipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Euripides ; and that his pupils j'Eschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism...with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects. 1 * 4 The ingenuous youth of Attica enjoyed the benefits of their domestic education, which was communicated... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 504
..."PARADISE REGAINED." Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the Aegean 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... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...terminus, Gibbon goes on : " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the erown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master...with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects." 22. Now then, reader, you have arrived at that station from which you overlook the whole of Greek Literature,... | |
| Thomas George Tucker - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...grieves that the rocks now show through the surface like the bones in an emaciated body. Says Milton : Where on the Aegean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the' air, and light the soil. That lightness of the soil, however, is no compliment. Nevertheless, by careful... | |
| Charles Rochester Eastman - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...character and habits, or to attempt to account for that civilization which flourished, as Milton says Where on the Aegean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, it is above all things imperative to understand the conditions of Attic soil and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 1006
...representations of the CEdipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Euripides ; and that his pupils .,-Eschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism...Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.5 The ingenuous youth of Attica enjoyed the benefits of their domestic education, which was communicated... | |
| Edward Adolf Sonnenschein - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...clime to clime, Hear thy myriad laureates hail thee monarch in their woodland rhyme. TENNYSON. 20. Behold Where on. the Aegean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts. MILTON. AGREEMENT OF RELATIVE PRONOUNS... | |
| Lane Cooper - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...advanced at the head of the civilization of the world. ' IV FROM PARADISE REGAINED 1 BY JOHN MILTON Behold Where on the Aegean 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,... | |
| Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 872
...have been a wonderful inspiration to the Athenians. Milton's lines in this connection are well known: Where, on the Aegean shore, a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil — Athens, the eye of Greece. Modern Attica is a department of Greece, having a... | |
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