 | 1811 - 438 pages
...nearly the site of the outer Ccramicus. We proceeded for about half an hour, through wheat (tnbbles, before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently...garden wall, encompasses the city We passed through the gale, and entered little rural slreets, cool, and very clean : each house has its garden, planted with... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 550 pages
...nearly the site of the outer Ceramicus. We proceeded for about half an hour, through wheat stubbles, before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently...dejected look of the people of the Morea. We were shown the house of the consul. I could not have" had a better recommendation than to M. Fauvel, for... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 548 pages
...nearly the site of the outer Ceramicus. We proceeded for about half an hour, through wheat stubbles,* before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently...and had not the dejected look of the people of the Moron. We were shown the house of the consul. I could not have had a better recommendation than to... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 546 pages
...nearly the site of the outer Ceramicus. We proceeded for about half an hour, through wheat stubbles, before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently...each house has its garden, planted with orange and fig<rees. The inhahitants appeared to me to be lively and inquisitive, and had not the dejected look... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...Jordan, the Nile, the Tagus, anil the Ebro! We proceeded for about half an hour, througli wheat stubbles, before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently...has its garden, planted with orange and fig-trees. My guide pointed out the relics of an antique temple, almost at his own door ; then, turning to the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 480 pages
...to irrigate the plantations of olives. We proceeded for about half an hour, through wheat stubbles, before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently...little rural streets, cool, and very clean : each bou.se has its garden, planted with orange and fig trees. My guide pointed out the relics of an antique... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1835 - 378 pages
...nearly the site of the outer Ceramicus. We proceeded for about half an hour, through wheat stubbles, before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently...the Morea. We were shewn the house of the consul. to the site of Olympia, the plain of Marathon, the tomb of Themistocles at the Piraeus, the temple... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1838 - 480 pages
...to irrigate the plantations of olives. We proceeded for about half an hour, through 'wheat stubbles, before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently...has its garden, planted with orange and fig-trees. My guide pointed out the relics of an antique temple, almost at his own door ; then, turning to the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 492 pages
...irrigate the plantations of olives. We proceeded for about half an hour, through wheat, stubbles, berore we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently repaired,...each house has its garden, planted with orange and fig trees. My guide pointed out the relics of an antique temple, almost at his own door; then, turning... | |
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On leaving the olive-wood, we came to a garden surrounded with walls, which occupies nearly the site of the outer Ceramicus. We proceeded for about half an hour, through wheat stubbles, before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently repaired, and resembling... 