A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and ConstantinopleJ. Murray, 1845 - 408 páginas |
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... once lay your hand on motives ; you spring at once to conclusions without the trouble of reflection , or the risks which so unfortu- nately attend the parturitions of logic . Placed among a strange people , if you inquire , you must use ...
... once lay your hand on motives ; you spring at once to conclusions without the trouble of reflection , or the risks which so unfortu- nately attend the parturitions of logic . Placed among a strange people , if you inquire , you must use ...
Página xxiv
... once having set out , as seldom as possible to loiter on the way . ” k . QUARANTINE . This is the greatest annoyance to which travellers in the East are exposed on their return to Europe . It is rigidly enforced , and can by no means be ...
... once having set out , as seldom as possible to loiter on the way . ” k . QUARANTINE . This is the greatest annoyance to which travellers in the East are exposed on their return to Europe . It is rigidly enforced , and can by no means be ...
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... once a month , but as there will ultimately be 6 vessels , there will then be 3 departures in each month . The departure from Marseilles is fixed for the 4th of each month , at 5 p.m. , and from Alexandria on the 20th of each month , at ...
... once a month , but as there will ultimately be 6 vessels , there will then be 3 departures in each month . The departure from Marseilles is fixed for the 4th of each month , at 5 p.m. , and from Alexandria on the 20th of each month , at ...
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... once the best ; it is said to be still good and cheap , with a tolerable table - d'hôte . The usual rate of living at the best hotels is 10s . a day , exclusive of wines . The private lodging - houses are more quiet , but nearly as ...
... once the best ; it is said to be still good and cheap , with a tolerable table - d'hôte . The usual rate of living at the best hotels is 10s . a day , exclusive of wines . The private lodging - houses are more quiet , but nearly as ...
Página xliii
... once the palace of a knight who gave his name to the bay . It was converted into a naval hospital by the addition of two wings , by order of William IV . The establishment is well managed , and capable of affording accommodation to 300 ...
... once the palace of a knight who gave his name to the bay . It was converted into a naval hospital by the addition of two wings , by order of William IV . The establishment is well managed , and capable of affording accommodation to 300 ...
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Acropolis Albanian ancient city antiquity appear arches ascends Asia Minor Athens beautiful Bosphorus building built called Cape castle celebrated Cephissus Chalcis church coast columns Constantinople contains Corfu crosses descends distance English entrance extends feet foot formerly fortress gardens gate Greece Greek ground Gulf harbour height hill Hotel houses inhabitants inscriptions Ionian Ionian Islands island Kalamata Kara-hissar Kastro Khan lake land leaving lofty Malta marble Messrs miles monastery mosque moun Mount mountains Nauplia opposite palace Pasha Patras Pausanias piastres picturesque plain port promontory Pyrgo remains residence ridge rising river road lies road passes rock rocky Roman route ruins scenery Sfakian shore side situated slope Smyrna spot stands steamers steep stone stream Sultan summit Syra tains temple theatre thence tion Tokat tombs towers town traveller Turkish Turks Valletta valley Venetian village walls whence wine wood Yuzgat
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Página 398 - 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 80 - tis haunted, holy ground; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon; Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Página 80 - And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?
Página 81 - Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 16 Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die...
Página 397 - 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...
Página 38 - If thou regret'st thy youth, why live ? The land of honourable death Is here. Up, to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out (less often sought than found) A soldier's grave, for thee the best ! Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest ! PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
Página 398 - 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...
Página 398 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords and native ranks The only hope of courage dwells: But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad.
Página 102 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Página 398 - 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!