. The poetical works of James Thomson, James Beattie, Gilbert West, and John Bampfylde. Illustrated by Birket Foster. With biographical notices of the authors . countries cultured high :In ornamented towns, where order reigns,Free social life, and polishd manners fair:In exercise, and arms ; arms only drawnFor common Greece, to quell the Persian pride :In moral science, and in graceful , as for glory peacefully they strove,The prize grew greater, and the prize of contest brightend, hence the radiant youthPourd every beam ; by generous pride inflamed,Felt every ardour burn : th
. The poetical works of James Thomson, James Beattie, Gilbert West, and John Bampfylde. Illustrated by Birket Foster. With biographical notices of the authors . countries cultured high :In ornamented towns, where order reigns,Free social life, and polishd manners fair:In exercise, and arms ; arms only drawnFor common Greece, to quell the Persian pride :In moral science, and in graceful , as for glory peacefully they strove,The prize grew greater, and the prize of contest brightend, hence the radiant youthPourd every beam ; by generous pride inflamed,Felt every ardour burn : their great rewardThe verdant wreath, which sounding Pisa * gave. (1) A mountain near Athens, celebrated from the earliest times to thepresent day for its excellent honey. (2) Two rivers, betwixt which Athens was situated. (3) The Areopagus, or Supreme Court of Judicature, which Solon reformedand improved; and the Council of Four Hundred, by him instituted. Inthis council all affairs of state were deliberated, before they came to be votedin the assembly of the people. (4) A city of Elis, which long enjoyed the privilege of presidency at theOlympic il MARATHOW GREECE. 207 Hence flourishd Greece ; and hence a race of men,As gods by conscious future times adored :In whom each virtue wore a smiling air,Each science shed oer life a friendly light,Each art was nature. Spartan valour hence,At the famed pass,1 firm as an isthmus stood ;And the whole eastern ocean, waving farAs eye could dart its vision, nobly in extended battle, at the heldOf Marathon, my keen Athenians droveBefore their ardent band an host of slaves. Hence through the continent ten thousand GreeksUrged a retreat, whose glory not the primeOf victories can reach. Deserts, in vain,Opposed their course ; and hostile lands, unknown ;And deep rapacious floods, dire bankd with death ;And mountains, in whose jaws destruction grinnd ;Hunger and toil; Armenian snows, and storms ;And circling myriads still of
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