Rambles and studies in Greece . t his soul had longed for many yearsin vain : and as is wont to be the case with allgreat human longings, the truth does not answerto his desire. The pang of disappointment is allthe greater when he sees that the tooth of timeand the shock of earthquake have done but littleharm. It is the hand of man—of reckless foe andruthless lover—which has robbed him of his is the feeling, I am sure, of more than haveconfessed it, when they first wound their waythrough the fields of great blue aloes, and passedup through the Propylaea into the presence of theParthe
Rambles and studies in Greece . t his soul had longed for many yearsin vain : and as is wont to be the case with allgreat human longings, the truth does not answerto his desire. The pang of disappointment is allthe greater when he sees that the tooth of timeand the shock of earthquake have done but littleharm. It is the hand of man—of reckless foe andruthless lover—which has robbed him of his is the feeling, I am sure, of more than haveconfessed it, when they first wound their waythrough the fields of great blue aloes, and passedup through the Propylaea into the presence of But to those who have not given wayto these feelings—who have gone again and againand sat upon the rock, and watched the ruins atevery hour of the day, and in the brightness of amoonlight night—to those who have dwelt amongthem, and meditated upon them with love andawe—there first comeback the remembered glories no bound to add, thai very competent observers, among othersSayce, have not felt this iv.] ATHENS—THE ACROPOLIS. 8; of Athens greatness, when Olympian Periclesstood upon this rock with care-worn Phidias,and reckless Alcibiades with pious Xicias, andfervent Demosthenes with caustic Phocion—whensuch men peopled the temples in their worship,and all the fluted pillars and sculptured friezeswere bright with scarlet, and blue, and gold. Andthen the glory of remembered history casts its hueover the war-stained remnants. Every touch ofhuman hand, every fluting, and drop, and triglyph,and cornice recals the master minds which pro-duced this splendour ; and so at last we tear our-selves from it as from a thing of beauty, whicheven now we can never know, and love, and medi-tate upon to our hearts content. Nothing is more vexatious than the reflection,how lately these splendid remains have been re-duced to their present state. The Parthenon,being used as a Greek church, remained un-touched and perfect all through the Middle A gThen it became a m
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