 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 522 Seiten
...every stone breathes an epic, every running brook gurgles a poem, every mound unearths a sculptor, " Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set." It was in Greece that all means adapted to develop the body, and to train the mind to warlike enterprise,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1854 - 804 Seiten
...Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set."-h The Turkish pachas never set their feet in these blessed abodes of industry and freedom. Secretly... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 Seiten
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Island of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 Seiten
...Sappho loved and sung, — • Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon,— And Marathon... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 Seiten
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Seian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the, lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1855 - 506 Seiten
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose and Phœbus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet. But all except their sun is set."* The Turkish pachas never set their feet in these blessed abodes of industry and freedom. Secretly afraid... | |
 | 1833 - 632 Seiten
...burning Sappho loved and sung; Where grew the arts of war and peace ; Whence Delos rose, and Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set." Shall I he forgiven if I quote a few lines descriptive of this celebrated spot, written by the same... | |
 | 1855 - 458 Seiten
...Sappho loved and Sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose and .Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The-Scian and the Teian Muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 Seiten
...Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung — Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is scl. — BYRON. O thou queen ! Thou delegated Deity of Earth ; O dear, dear England ! how my longing... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 Seiten
...burning' Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose and Phosbus sprung !' Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all,...echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest."3 The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, musing there an hour... | |
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The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 
