| Massachusetts. Governor - 1861 - 566 pages
...Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Thrilled his thick-warbled note the summer long ;" whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious...lofty stage erected for the purpose, it was ordained by law that a funeral oration should be pronounced by some citizen of Athens, in the presence of the... | |
| Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 pages
...Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trilled his thick-warbled note the summer long; " whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious...dead, the work of the most consummate masters that erer gave life to marble. There, beneath the overarching plane-trees, upon a lofty stage erected for... | |
| Samuel Penniman Bates - History - 1875 - 460 pages
...Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trilled his thick warbled note the summer long; ' — whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious...gave life to marble. There, beneath the overarching plane trees, upon a lofty stage erected for the purpose, it was ordained that a funeral oration should... | |
| Lysias - 1876 - 242 pages
...Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trilled his thick-warbled note the summer long," — whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious...Athens in the presence of the assembled multitude." This eloquent description by Edward Everett, in the " Address at the Consecration of the National Cemetery... | |
| Lysias - 1876 - 242 pages
...Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trilled his thick-warbled note the summer long," — whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious...Athens in the presence of the assembled multitude." This eloquent description by Edward Everett, in the " Address at the Consecration of the National Cemetery... | |
| Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Oregon - 1882 - 22 pages
...ways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious dead. There beneath the over-arching plane trees.it was ordained that a funeral oration should be pronounced by some citizen of the republic in the presence of the assembled multitude. Such were the honors which the laws of Athens... | |
| John Mitchell Vanderslice - History - 1899 - 504 pages
...Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trilled his thick.warbled note the summer long,' whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious...gave life to marble. There, beneath the overarching plane trees, upon a lofty stage erected for the purpose, it was ordained that a funeral oration should... | |
| Benson John Lossing - History - 1906 - 530 pages
...Academe, . . . Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trilled his thick-warbled note tbe summer long," whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious...gave life to marble. There, beneath the overarching plane - trees, upon a lofty stage erected for the purpose, it was ordained that a funeral oration should... | |
| Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1906 - 542 pages
...shrines, and temples, whose gardens were kept forever green by the streams from the neighboring hills, whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious...consummate masters that ever gave life to marble," and told us of the votive offerings laid upon the coffins of the dead, flowers, weapons, precious ornaments,... | |
| Illinois State Historical Library - Illinois - 1906 - 540 pages
...shrines, and temples, whose gardens were kept forever green by the streams from the neighboring hills, whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious...consummate masters that ever gave life to marble,'' and told us of the votive offerings laid upon the coffins of the dead, flowers, weapons, precious ornaments,... | |
| |