Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence ThereJ. Murray, 1836 - 285 pagina's |
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Pagina 95 - To apply the same observation to another department of dramatic literature : It is evident that to the peculiar advantages arising from its position and character, which the Theatre of Athens possessed, is to be ascribed in a great degree the successful daring of the Aristophanic plays: To cite instances : How in the confinement of a modern theatre could we imagine a Trygaeus soaring above the sea in an aerial excursion...
Pagina 241 - Here there are no books, no lamps, no windows, no carriages, no newspapers, no post-office. The letters which arrived here a few days since from Napoli, after having been publicly cried in the streets, if they were not claimed by the parties to whom they were addressed, were committed to the flames.
Pagina 112 - It was this particular point in the localities of Athens, which was most admired by the Athenians themselves ; nor is this surprising. Let us conceive such a restitution of this fabric as its surviving fragments will suggest ; let us imagine it restored to its pristine beauty ; let it rise once more in the full dignity of its youthful stature ; let all the architectural decorations be fresh and perfect...
Pagina 96 - Agora, the harbours and the Pnyx, and all the tributary islands lying in a group around him ? These conceptions, and such as these, are characteristic of the genius of the Athenian drama: on a modern stage they would...
Pagina 74 - S. Angelo, spreads its wings over the city of Rome, — was the bronze Colossus of Minerva, armed with spear, shield and helmet, as the champion of Athens. Standing almost beneath its shade, he pronounced that the Deity was not to be likened either to that, the work of Phidias, or to other forms in gold, silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device, which peopled the scene before him.
Pagina 286 - ENGLAND IN 1835. BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN TO FRIENDS IN GERMANY, DURING A RESIDENCE IN LONDON AND EXCURSIONS INTO THE PROVINCES. BY FREDERICK VON RAUMER, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, AUTHOR OF THE " HISTORY OF THE HOHENSTAUFEN," OF THE " HlSTORY OF EUROPE FROM THE END OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY," OF " ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HISTORY OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES,
Pagina 96 - There his journey would be reduced to a mere mechanical process of ropes and pullies, and would be inexorably baffled by the resistance of the roof. But in the Athenian Tueatre the sky itself was then visible, whither he was mounting, and in which he was placed by the simple machinery of the imagination of the spectators to which free play was given by the natural properties of the theatre itself.
Pagina 62 - SW of the centre of the Areopagus hill. The Pnyx may be best described as an area formed by the segment of a circle, which, as it is very nearly equal to a semicircle, for the sake of conciseness we shall assume to be such. The radius of this semicircle varies from about sixty to eighty yards. It is on a sloping ground, which shelves down very gently toward the hollow of...
Pagina 286 - The Highlanders of Scotland; their origin, history, and antiquities, with a sketch of their manners and customs, and an account of the Clans into which they were divided, &c.
Pagina 49 - There is but one church in which the service is performed. A few new wooden houses, one or two of more solid structure, and the two lines of planked sheds which form the bazar are all the inhabited dwellings that Athens can now boast.