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... oracle of Apollo at Delphi . § 9. Community of manners and character . § 10 . The independent sovereignty of each city a settled maxim in the Greek mind 47 CHAPTER VII . EARLY HISTORY OF PELOPONNESUS AND LEGISLATION OF LYCURGUS . § 1 ...
... oracle of Apollo at Delphi . § 9. Community of manners and character . § 10 . The independent sovereignty of each city a settled maxim in the Greek mind 47 CHAPTER VII . EARLY HISTORY OF PELOPONNESUS AND LEGISLATION OF LYCURGUS . § 1 ...
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... Oracle of Ammon . § 13. Battle of Arbela . § 14. Alexander takes possession of Babylon , Susa , and Persepolis . § 15 . March to Ecbatana , and pursuit of Darius . Death of Darius . § 16 . March through Hyrcania , Asia , and Drangiana ...
... Oracle of Ammon . § 13. Battle of Arbela . § 14. Alexander takes possession of Babylon , Susa , and Persepolis . § 15 . March to Ecbatana , and pursuit of Darius . Death of Darius . § 16 . March through Hyrcania , Asia , and Drangiana ...
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... oracle to beget no children , or he would be murdered by his son . He neglected the prediction , but to obviate its effects caused his son Edipus by Jocasta to be exposed to death . The infant , however , was saved and carried to ...
... oracle to beget no children , or he would be murdered by his son . He neglected the prediction , but to obviate its effects caused his son Edipus by Jocasta to be exposed to death . The infant , however , was saved and carried to ...
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... oracle not to enter Peloponnesus by the Isthmus of Corinth , but across the mouth of the Corinthian gulf . The inhabitants of the northern coast of the gulf were favourable to their enterprise . Oxylus , king of the Etolians , became ...
... oracle not to enter Peloponnesus by the Isthmus of Corinth , but across the mouth of the Corinthian gulf . The inhabitants of the northern coast of the gulf were favourable to their enterprise . Oxylus , king of the Etolians , became ...
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... oracle of Apollo at Delphi . § 9. Community of manners and character . § 10. The independent sovereignty of each city a settled maxim in the Greek mind . § 1. THE present Book will contain the History of Greece from the first Olympiad ...
... oracle of Apollo at Delphi . § 9. Community of manners and character . § 10. The independent sovereignty of each city a settled maxim in the Greek mind . § 1. THE present Book will contain the History of Greece from the first Olympiad ...
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Page 147 - 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?
Page 317 - 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' 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...
Page 316 - 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.
Page 341 - Close around him, and confound him, the confounder of us all, Pelt him, pummel him, and maul him ; rummage, ransack, overhaul him ; Overbear him and outbawl him ; bear him down, and bring him under. Bellow like a burst of thunder, Robber ! harpy ! sink of plunder ! Rogue and villain ! rogue and cheat ! rogue and villain, I repeat ! Oftener than I can repeat it, has the rogue and villain cheated. Close around him, left and right ; spit upon him, spurn and smite : Spit upon him as you see : spurn and...
Page 135 - Of those who at Thermopylae were slain, Glorious the doom, and beautiful the lot ; Their tomb an altar : men from tears refrain To honour them, and praise, but mourn them not. Such sepulchre nor drear decay, Nor all-destroying time shall waste ; this right have they. Within their grave the home-bred glory Of Greece was laid ; this witness gives Leonidas the Spartan, in whose story A wreath of famous virtue ever lives."-)
Page 67 - Now o'er the drowsy earth still Night prevails. Calm sleep the mountain tops and shady vales, The rugged cliffs and hollow glens; The wild beasts slumber in their dens; The cattle on the hill. Deep in the sea The countless finny race and monster brood Tranquil repose.
Page 125 - Hellespont to be scourged, and a set of fetters cast into it. Thus having given vent to his resentment, he ordered two bridges to be built in place of the former, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of burthen. The...
Page 135 - Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie...
Page 84 - Of a sound stock, without defect or vice. But, in the daily matches that we make, The price is everything: for money's sake, Men marry: women are in marriage given The churl or ruffian, that in wealth has thriven, May match his offspring with the proudest race: Thus everything is mix'd, noble and base!
Page 167 - In the last species of composition he particularly excelled. His genius was inclined to the pathetic, and none could touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy. The Lamentation of Danae...