Greece and the Levant; Or, Diary of a Summer's Excursion in 1834: With Epistolary Supplements, Volum 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835 |
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Greece and the Levant; Or, Diary of a Summer's Excursion in 1834 ..., Volum 1 Richard Burgess Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1835 |
Greece and the Levant; Or, Diary of a Summer's Excursion in 1834 ..., Volum 1 Richard Burgess Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1835 |
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Side 229 - Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Side 195 - While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument...
Side 195 - Sea. The confidence of the cities of Peloponnesus in their natural rampart, had tempted them to neglect the care of their antique walls; and the avarice of the Roman governors had exhausted and betrayed the unhappy province.10 Corinth, Argos, Sparta, yielded without resistance to the arms of the Goths; and the most fortunate of the inhabitants were saved, by death, from beholding the slavery of their families and the conflagration of their cities.11 The vases and statues were distributed among the...
Side 229 - Olympic plain ; Where, the resplendent wreath to gain, Contend the swift, the active, and the bold. STROPHE VII. Happy he, whose glorious brow Pisa's honour'd chaplets crown ! Calm his stream of life shall flow, Sheltered by his high renown.
Side 174 - Doric was best displayed on a lofty rock, the greater proportional height of the elegant Ionic required a level, surrounded with hills. So sensible were the Greeks of this general principle, that the columns of the Doric temple of Nemea, which is situated in a narrow plain, have proportions not less slender than some examples of the Ionic order. In fact, it was situation that determined the Greeks in all the varieties of their architecture ; and, so far from being the slaves of rule, there are no...
Side 12 - Mittere equum medios per ignes. Sic tauriformis volvitur Aufidus , Qui regna Dauni praefluit Appuli , Quum saevit , horrendamque cultis Diluviem meditatur agris...
Side 176 - ... and a half, and those at the angles five feet ten inches and a quarter. It stands upon three steps, each of which is one foot two inches in height. The capital of the exterior column has been shaken out of its place, and will probably ere long fall to the ground. The lower part of the cella remains ; the columns have fallen in such regular order that the temple evidently appears to have been destroyed by the sudden concussion of an earthquake, rather than by the lingering and desultory decay...
Side 108 - Quatuor menses obsidionem Same sustinuit. Cum ex paucis quotidie aliqui eorum caderent, aut vulnerarentur, et, qui superarent, fessi et corporibus et animis essent; Romani nocte per arcem, quam Cyatidem vocant, (nam urbs> in mare devexa, in Occidentem vergit) muro superato, in forum pervenerunt. Samœi, postquam captam urbis partem ab hostibus senserunt, cum conjugibus ac liberis in majorem refugerunt arcem : inde postero die dediti, direptâ urbe, sub corona omnes venierunt.
Side 22 - Massafra is prettily situated on the slo[)0 of a hill interspersed with tufts of trees and shrubs ; but, when near it, it assumes a most singular appearance. The rock on which it stands is perforated and worked into a thousand fantastic shapes.
Side 296 - After the peace it was restored to Venice, " and by some future revolution in the European system, may, perhaps, be replaced in its original station at the Pirams.