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Athens: Its Rise and Fall: Volume 4 - in large print Edward Bulwer Lytton Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2023 |
Athens: Its Rise and Fall: Volume 4 - in large print Edward Bulwer Lytton Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2023 |
Athens: Its Rise and Fall: Volume 4 - in large print Edward Bulwer Lytton Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2023 |
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Сторінка 464 - The citizen was everywhere to be reminded of the majesty of the STATE — his patriotism was to be increased by the pride in her beauty — his taste to be elevated by the spectacle of her splendour.
Сторінка 411 - Religion made the basis of the fraternity, but religion connected with human ends of advancement and power. He selected the three hundred, who, at Croton, formed his order, from the noblest families, and they were professedly reared to know themselves, that so they might be fitted to command the world. It was not long before this society, of which Pythagoras was the head, appears to have supplanted the ancient senate, and obtained the legislative administration. In this institution, Pythagoras stands...
Сторінка 237 - When the deluge of the Persian arms rolled back to its eastern bed, and the world was once more comparatively at rest, the continent of Greece rose visibly and majestically above the rest of the civilized earth. Afar in the Latian plains, the infant state of Rome was silently and obscurely struggling into strength against the neighbouring and petty states in which the old Etrurian civilization was rapidly passing to decay. The genius of Gaul and Germany, yet unredeemed from barbarism, lay scarce...
Сторінка 238 - The ambition of Persia, still the great monarchy of the world, was permanently checked and crippled; the strength of generations had been wasted, and the immense extent of the empire only served yet more to sustain the general peace, from the exhaustion of its forces. The defeat of Xerxes paralysed the East.
Сторінка 558 - And masterless the mad steeds raged along ! Loud from that mighty multitude arose A shriek — a shout ! But yesterday such deeds, To-day such doom ! Now whirled upon the earth, Now his limbs dashed aloft, they dragged him — those Wild horses— till all gory from the wheels Released, — and no man, not his nearest friends, Could in that mangled corpse have traced Orestes.
Сторінка 557 - Unscathed and skillful, in the midmost space, Left the wild tumult of that tossing storm. Behind, Orestes, hitherto the last, Had yet kept back his coursers for the close ; Now one sole rival left — on, on he flew, And the sharp sound of the impelling scourge Rang in the keen ears of the flying steeds. He nears, he reaches — they are side by side — Now one — the other — by a length the victor.
Сторінка 216 - Platea; the most vital conflict to the fortunes of the species which occurred in all antiquity, and which we have never elsewhere read in so graphic and animated a form — "As the troops of Mardonius advanced, the rest of the Persian armament, deeming the task was now not to fight but to pursue, raised their standards and poured forward tumultuously, without discipline or order.
Сторінка 557 - With the huge clangor of the rattling cars. High whirl aloft the dust-clouds ; blent together, Each presses each and the lash rings ; and loud Snort the wild steeds, and from their fiery breath, Along their manes and down the circling wheels Scatter the flaking foam.
Сторінка 43 - In solemn feasts the race-torch circles round. — And these my heralds ! — this my SIGN OF PEACE ; Lo ! while we breathe, the victor lords of Greece, Stalk, in stern tumult, through the halls of Troy...
Сторінка 315 - ... houses wholly escaped the shock. This terrible calamity did not cease suddenly as it came ; its concussions were repeated; it buried alike men and treasure : could we credit Diodorus, no less than twenty thousand persons perished in the shock. Thus depopulated, impoverished, and distressed, the enemies whom the cruelty of Sparta nursed within her bosom, resolved to seize the moment to execute their vengeance, and consummate her destruction. Under Pausanias, we have seen before, that the Helots...