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 páginas |
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... height of summer , and in the early autumn . The hottest months are July , August , and part of September . It is in August and September chiefly that danger is to be apprehended from sickness . Fevers are then prevalent , especially in ...
... height of summer , and in the early autumn . The hottest months are July , August , and part of September . It is in August and September chiefly that danger is to be apprehended from sickness . Fevers are then prevalent , especially in ...
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... height of 5500 feet , and is the region of beech and pine . The fourth , or Alpine zone , including all the surface above 5500 feet in height , yields only a few wild plants . In Walpole's Memoirs of Turkey ' will be found a very ...
... height of 5500 feet , and is the region of beech and pine . The fourth , or Alpine zone , including all the surface above 5500 feet in height , yields only a few wild plants . In Walpole's Memoirs of Turkey ' will be found a very ...
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... height in the island . Lord Carlisle , in his ' Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters ' ( 1854 ) , writes as follows : - " I went over the citadel , which comprises the two peaks from which the town is named ; the view is very fine ; but ...
... height in the island . Lord Carlisle , in his ' Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters ' ( 1854 ) , writes as follows : - " I went over the citadel , which comprises the two peaks from which the town is named ; the view is very fine ; but ...
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... S.E. , the lower de- clivities of which cover nearly the whole island . The highest summit of this range , rising to the height of 5380 ft . , was called of old Enos , 70 Sect . I. 3. Cephalonia : Remains of Proni , & c .;
... S.E. , the lower de- clivities of which cover nearly the whole island . The highest summit of this range , rising to the height of 5380 ft . , was called of old Enos , 70 Sect . I. 3. Cephalonia : Remains of Proni , & c .;
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... height of at least 200 ft . , and sloping precipitously into it on the other , is the " ancient mount " beneath whose shadow Childe Harold " saw the even- ing star above Leucadia's far - pro- jecting rock of woe . " Its summit is strewn ...
... height of at least 200 ft . , and sloping precipitously into it on the other , is the " ancient mount " beneath whose shadow Childe Harold " saw the even- ing star above Leucadia's far - pro- jecting rock of woe . " Its summit is strewn ...
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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 Greece Greek Gulf harbour height Hellenic hill Homer Hotel houses inhabitants Ionian Ionian Islands island isthmus Joánnina Kalamata khan Kyparissia lake land 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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Página 138 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, 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...
Página 201 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Página 245 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled, at its blaze — A funeral pile. The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted portion of the pain And power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain.
Página 34 - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
Página 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.
Página 138 - Of bees' industrious murmur oft invites To studious musing ; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages ; his who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next...
Página 116 - Ionian blast, Hail the bright clime of battle and of song; Long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore; Boast of the aged! lesson of the young! Which sages venerate and bards adore, As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore.
Página 325 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 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?
Página 138 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
Página 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.