. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. rces of a nation withthe energy of an individual, because the toil, the cost, wereborne by those who succeeded to the enjoyment and arrogatedthe glory. 1 Pnii>-i-AS was a celebrated Fculptor of Ath-1 pelago, famous for the Parian marbleens, whom Pericles appointed superintend-j which the Greeks used for statuary,ent of all the public works, both of archi-^^ Ped-i-ment, an ornament that crowns the lecture and statuary, 2 Cal-lio-ba-tE.*, in conjunction with Icti-nus, built the Parthenon at Athens. 3 Mxiis-T-CLE?, a celebrated archi
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. rces of a nation withthe energy of an individual, because the toil, the cost, wereborne by those who succeeded to the enjoyment and arrogatedthe glory. 1 Pnii>-i-AS was a celebrated Fculptor of Ath-1 pelago, famous for the Parian marbleens, whom Pericles appointed superintend-j which the Greeks used for statuary,ent of all the public works, both of archi-^^ Ped-i-ment, an ornament that crowns the lecture and statuary, 2 Cal-lio-ba-tE.*, in conjunction with Icti-nus, built the Parthenon at Athens. 3 Mxiis-T-CLE?, a celebrated architect, borna slave in tlie house of Pericles. front of buildings, and serves as a decora-tion over gates, windows, etc.! FbiEze {fiecz), that part of the en-tab-la-tCee between the XEtii-T-TRivE and€on-NicE (.kor-nis). See p. -82. * Pen-tel-i-€U8, a mountain of Attica, con-8 Ir-rEf-ea-ga-ble, that can not be refuted;taining quarries of beautiful marble. indisputable. * Pi-EOS, an island in the Grecian Archi-| LESSON III.—RUINS OF THE COLISeuM AT AncriES on arches! tis it were that Rome,Collecting the chief trophies of her line,Would build up all her triumphs in one dome,Her Coliseum stands; the moonbeams shineAs twere its natural torches, for divineShould be the light which streams here, to illumeThis long explored but still exhaustless mineOf contemplation : and the azure gloomOf an Italian night, where the deep skies assumeHues which have words, and speak to ye of heaven,Floats oer this vast and wondrous monument, 288 WILLSON S riFTII EEADEK. Pakt VI. And shadows forth its glory. There u givenUnto the things of earth, which Time liath bent,A spirit^ ftoling; and where lie Imtli leantJ lis hand, but broke his scythe, there ia a powerAnd magic in the ruind battlement,Ior which tlie palace of the present hourMust yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.—Bteon. 2. In tlie open space between the Esquiline and PalatineHills are to be seen the ruins of the Col
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