"Mount Olympus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Nauplia, exceeds in beauty and interest any bird's-eye prospect. Any one who looks at the map of Greece will see how the Acro-Corinthus commands coasts, islands, and bays. The day was too hazy when we stood there to let us measure the real limits of the view, and I can not say how near to Mount Olympus the eye may reach in a suitable atmosphere. But a host of islands, the southern coasts of Attica and Boeotia, the Acropolis of Athens, Salamis and AEgina, Helicon and Parnassus, and endless AEtolian peaks were visible in one direction; while, as we turned round, all the waving ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII - Italy and Greece, Part Two • Various
... short struggle, he finally yielded himself entirely. Isabelle, Serafina, even the pretty soubrette, seemed to him, unaccustomed as he was to feminine beauty and grace, like goddesses come down from Mount Olympus, rather than mere ordinary mortals. They were all very pretty, and well fitted to turn heads far more experienced than his. The whole thing was like a delightful dream to him; he almost doubted the evidence ...
— Captain Fracasse • Theophile Gautier |
