A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art |
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Achæan Acropolis Ægina afterwards Agesilaus Alcibiades Alexander allies ancient Antigonus Argos Aristeides army arrived Asia assembly assistance Athenians Athens attack Attica battle became Boeotia called cavalry celebrated Cimon citizens Cleisthenes coast colonies command conquest Corinth Corinthian Cyrus Darius death defeated Demetrius Demosthenes despatched despot Dionysius Dorians empire enemy envoys Epameinondas Euboea expedition favor festival fleet force formed garrison Grecian Greece Greeks Hellenic honor hoplites hundred inhabitants Ionians island king Lacedæmonians land latter Lysander Macedonian Messenians mountains nians Nicias orators party Pausanias peace Peiræus Peisistratus Peloponnesian Peloponnesian war Peloponnesus Pericles period Persian Pharnabazus Philip Phocians poems poet political possession proceeded revolt Roman sailed Salamis Samos seized sent ships Sicily siege slain Socrates Solon Sparta succeeded Syracusans Syracuse temple Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thessaly thousand tion Tissaphernes took town tribes triremes troops Turks victory walls whilst Xerxes
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Page 355 - 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 355 - 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 the sound Of bees...
Page 381 - 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 617 - I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility : — there is a stake worth millions such as I am, and while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause.
Page 232 - By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand: By this directed to thy native shore, The merchant shall convey his freighted store ; And when our fleets arc summoned to the fight, Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight.
Page 192 - Persian's 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 I He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they?
Page 41 - These loose songs were not collected together into the form of an epic poem until five hundred years after." objections of his opponents, stating at the same time the opinion which seems to us the most probable. § 8. The first argument which Wolf brought forward to support his position was, that no written copies of the Iliad and the Odyssey could be shown to have existed during the earlier times to which their composition is referred, and that, without writing, such long and complicated works could...
Page 382 - Yes! assault, insult, abuse me! this is the return, I find, For the noble testimony, the memorial I designed: Meaning to propose proposals, for a monument of stone, On the which, your late achievements should be carved and neatly done. Chorus. Out, away with him! the slave! the pompous empty fawning knave! Does he think with idle speeches to delude and cheat us all ? As he does the doting elders, that attend his daily call ? Pelt him here, and bang him there; and here and there and everywhere.
Page 40 - He wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies, to be sung by himself for small earnings and good cheer, at festivals and other days of merriment ; the Ilias he made for the men, and the Odysse'is for the other sex.
Page 196 - A like salute from our whole line back-rolled In Persian speech. Nor more delay, but straight Trireme on trireme, brazen beak on beak Dashed furious. A Greek ship led on the attack,! And from the prow of a Phoenician struck The figure-head ; and now the grapple closed Of each ship with his adverse desperate. At first the main line of the Persian fleet Stood the harsh shock ; but soon their multitude Became their ruin ; in the narrow frith They might not use their strength, and, jammed together, Their...