Greece quotes

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 73.

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of Nature could no farther go; To make a third, she joined the former two.

-John Dryden
  'Epigram on Milton', engraved on the frontispiece to the 1688 edition of Paradise Lost. The three poets are Homer, Virgil and Milton.

Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes Intulit agresti Latio. Captive Greece overcame her savage conqueror and brought the arts into rustic Latium.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Epistulae, bk.2, no.1, l.156^7.

Helen, whose beauty summoned Greece to arms, And drewa thousand ships toTenedos.

- Christopher Marlowe
  Tamburlaine the Great (published1590), pt.2, l.3055^6.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits

-John Milton
Paradise Regained, bk.4, l.240^1.

On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'To Helen', stanza 2.