The Topography of Athens: With Some Remarks on Its Antiquities, Volume 1Murray, 1831 - 435 pagine |
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Acropolis Agora altar ancient Apollo appears Areiopagus Aristoph Athe Athenians Athens Attic Bacchus brazen building called Cerameicus citadel columns deities demus Dionysiac theatre Dipylum eastern Enneacrunus Erechtheium feet frize Greece Greeks Hadrian Harpocrat Hercules Herodotus Hesych hill Hist Ilissus inclosure inscription Jupiter Lacedæmonians Long Walls Lyceium marble maritime mentioned metopes Minerva monument Munychia Museum nians northern Odeium Olympium Pandrosus Paral Parthenon passage Pausan Pausanias pediment Peiræeus Peiraic gate Peloponnesian Peloponnesian war peribolus Pericles Persians Phalerum Phidias Plutarch Pnyx Polias port portico probably Propylæa remarkable Roman sacred sanctuary Schol side southern Spon and Wheler stades statue Stoa stood Strabo Suidas supposed Sylla Themistocles Theseium Theseus Thucyd Thucydides tion tripods Victory western Xenoph γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐκ ἐν τῇ ἐπὶ ἐς ἦν καὶ κατὰ μὲν νῦν οἱ παρὰ περὶ πρὸς τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Pagina 14 - Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. A man will often look at them, and be tempted to go on, when he would have been frightened at books of a larger size, and of a more erudite appearance.
Pagina 14 - No. XI. The LIFE and VOYAGES of CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. By WASHINGTON IRVING. Abridged by him from his larger Work. Complete in 1 Vol. No. XII. The LIFE of NELSON. By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. LL.D. POET LAUREATE, &c.
Pagina 9 - We again most strongly recommend this little unpretending volume to the attention of every lover of nature, and more particularly of our country readers. It will induce them, we are sure, to examine more closely than they have been accustomed to do, into the objects of animated nature, and such examination will prove one of the most innocent, and the most satisfactory sources of gratification and amusement. It is a book that...
Pagina 14 - Plays, omitting all such passages as are inconsistent with modern delicacy. The task of separation requires great skill and discretion, but these qualities we have no apprehension of not finding, in the fullest degree requisite, in the Editors, who, by this purifying process, will perform a service both to the public and to the authors, whom they will thereby draw forth from unmerited obscurity.
Pagina 10 - Coleridge's work not only deserves the praise of clear, eloquent and scholar like exposition of the preliminary matter, which is necessary in order to understand and enter into the character of the great Poet of antiquity; but it has likewise the more rare merit of being admirably adapted for its acknowledged purpose. It is written in that fresh and ardent spirit, which to the congenial mind of youth, will convey instruction in the most effective manner, by awakening the desire of it; and by enlisting...
Pagina 13 - COOKERY for the SICK, and for the POOR ; many very useful miscellaneous RECEIPTS, and DIRECTIONS proper to be given to SERVANTS both in Town and Country. To which is prefixed, an ESSAY on DOMESTIC ECONOMY and HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT, containing many Observations which will be found exceedingly useful to the Mistress of a Family.
Pagina 9 - It is a book that ought to find its way into every rural drawing-room in the kingdom, and one that may safely be planed in every lady's boudoir, be her rank and station in life what they may." — Quarterly Rewew, No. LXXVIH. " We think that there are few readers who will not be delighted (we are certain all will be instructed) by the * Journal of a Naturalist.
Pagina 121 - In the centre of the enclosure are the ruins of a building, which now form paft of the church of Megali Panaghia : they consist on one side of the remains of an arch, and on the other of an architrave, supported by a pilaster, and three columns of the Doric order, which are one foot nine inches in diameter, and of a declining period of the arts ; round the inside of the quadrangle, at a distance of twenty-three feet from the wall, are also vestiges of a colonnade, and in the northern wall, which...
Pagina 253 - Stare deum pelagi longoque ferire tridente aspera saxa facit, medioque e vulnere saxi exsiluisse fretum, quo pignore vindicet urbem; at sibi dat clipeum, dat acutae cuspidis hastam, dat galeam capiti, defenditur aegide pectus, percussamque sua simulat de cuspide terram edere cum bacis fetum canentis olivae mirarique deos: operis Victoria finis.
Pagina 212 - ... of many larger modern buildings, where the same singleness of design is not apparent. In the Parthenon there was nothing to divert the spectator's contemplation from the simplicity and majesty of mass and outline, which forms the first and most remarkable object of admiration in a Greek temple...