| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1862 - 474 sidor
...infant Plato as he slept among the myrtles while his parents were sacrificing to the Hymettian nymphs. " And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain air." A small quantity of the Hymettus honey was placed on the table... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1850 - 462 sidor
...subdued by the landscape to a harmony with its own exquisite rhythmus, (.shunting : " Tet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields. Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hy mcttus yields ; There the blithe... | |
| Cale Pelton - 1851 - 236 sidor
...classical associations, and the ruins of ancient art and splendor scattered over it. ** Yet are tby skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet are thy groves, and' verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettusf yields; There the blithe... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 sidor
...Lord Byron has amplified this thought ' in one of his most splendid passages : — " Vet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yield« ; There the blithe... | |
| 1851 - 724 sidor
...strikingly exhibited by two passages. The inspired pilgrim writes : — "Yet are thy skies as bine, thy crags as wild. Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fielda ; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled. And «till hi-ч honeyed wealth H 3'tnettus yields.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 sidor
...suggested the beautiful eighty-seventh stanza in Canto II. of Childe Harold :— " Yet are thy sides as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves...fields, Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled, And all his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 sidor
...regardless pass, Г iogering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh "Alts.1 LXXXTII. Yet are thy skies y mood, Whrn each conception was a heavenly guest olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 sidor
...regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas!" Yet are thy skies as blne, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettns yields; There the blithe bee... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 sidor
...only not regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh, "Alas!" Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1854 - 804 sidor
...recollections thrilled like the sound of a trumpet through the heart of Europe ? " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee... | |
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