We now, therefore, see that instead of there being any cause for surprise at finding an Ionic-Æolian poem written near Mt.
My men, thinking I had treasure in the sack, opened it to see, on which the winds came howling out and took us straight back to the Æolian island.
The writer of the Odyssey wrote in a language mainly Ionian, but containing a considerable Æolian element.
The place of all others where such a dialect might be looked for is Phocæa, a little South of the Troad; for Phocæa was an Ionian city entirely surrounded on its land sides by Æolian territory.
Next is Pitane, an Æolian city, with two harbours, and the river Euenus flowing beside it, which supplies the aqueduct of the Adramyttium with water.
Cyme is the largest and best of the Æolian cities.
It is said that the Æolian preceded the Ionian migration four generations, but it was attended with delays, and the settlement of the colonies took up a longer time.
Then Archelaus the son of Penthilus conducted the Æolian colonies across the sea to the present Cyzicene, near Dascylium.
But all the Æolian history, relating to a period a little subsequent to the Trojan times, proves the existence of the Larisa near Cyme.
After this they assisted Penthilus in sending out the Æolian colony, and despatched a large body of their own people with him, so that it was called the Bœotian colony.
Myrsilus says that Assus was founded by Methymnæans; but according to Hellanicus it was an Æolian city, like Gargara and Lamponia of the Æolians.
The voice gradually sank from our hearing as at first, and a very indistinct hissing succeeded; in its advance it sounded like the tone produced by the wind on the brass chord of an Æolian harp.
The sound appeared to have the greatest resemblance to that of the humming-top, rising and falling like that of an Æolian harp.
A writer in the Critical Review thought that "Æolian lyre" meant the Æolian harp.
Awake, Æolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings.
Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Æolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident?
Or breathe those sweet Æolian strains Stolen from celestial spheres above, To charm her ear while some remains, And soothe her soul to dreams of love.
At last they were again cast upon the shores of the Æolian Islands.
Long ago, the Lipari Islands, off the coast of Italy, were called the Æolian Islands.
There is a simple stringed instrument, called the æolian harp.
As he leads his camel past in the heat of the day, a sound like the first low tones of an Æolian harp stirs the hot breezeless air.
According to a generally credited opinion, it is to Father Kircher, who devised so many ingenious machines in the seventeenth century, that we owe the first systematically constructed model of an Æolian harp.
The Æolian harp of the Castle of Baden Baden, and those of the four turrets of Strassburg Cathedral are celebrated.
The Æolian harp has often inspired both writers of prose and poetry.
Without dwelling upon the history of the Æolian harp, we may say that in modern times this instrument has been especially constructed in England, Scotland, Germany, and Alsace.
In silence Sylvia walked to the Æolian pine tree, and they seated themselves on the rustic seat.
Meanwhile Sylvia had borne Thinkright away, in front of the house to the shade of the Æolian pine tree, and pulled him down beside her on a rustic seat.
Along the surbased roads rise the great sonorous pines, and through them wanders the æolian complaint of the sea-winds.
Far off the Æolian isles were gloomed in the impending shadows, the smoky crater of Stromboli was no more than a black point circled by the double blue of waves and sky.
And though on earth, no more he'll weave The lay that's fraught with magic fire, Yet oft shall Fancy hear at eve His now exalted heavenly lyre In sounds Æolian grieve.
He likened her poetically to an Æolian harp and himself to the wind.
While he paced the loggia and thus recounted her charms, he became increasingly intolerant of the fact that his Æolian harp was being swept by various winds.
The Æolian Harp has been already referred to as a pleasing poem, and reading it, as we must, in constant recollection of the circumstances in which it was written, it unquestionably is so.
The tender but low-lying domestic sentiment of the Æolian Harp is in a moment informed by it with the dignity which marks that poem's close.
The 'olian Harp to which he so loved to listen does not more surely respond in music to the breeze of heaven than does Coleridge's poetic utterance to the wind of his inspiration.
But give to Cleinias's daughter worthy thanks; For she does shape her conduct honestly, And from Æolian Smyrna doth she come.
Antandros, opposite the magnificent Æolian island of Lesbos, and ere long their advanced posts were face to face on all sides with the outposts of Lydia.
And Miss St. John was glad of the veil of the twilight over her face as she listened, for the boy's enthusiasm trembled through her as the wind through an Æolian harp.
He went on playing a slow, lingering voluntary, such as the wind plays, of an amber autumn evening, on the æolian harp of its pines.
It is one of vast compass, with Æolian attachment, and cost eleven thousand dollars.
It is to fill the recess behind the spacious platform, and is described as containing pneumatic wind-chests throughout, and having an Æolian attachment.
It is an orchestra or a flute or an Æolian harp, as the mood seizes him.
It is like asking an Æolian harp to tell what the great organ of Freyburg does.
He endeavoured to clothe unfathomable thoughts and shadowy images in melody that was like the wind wandering over the strings of an æolian harp.
It is very peaceful, for the repetitions of the worshippers in the open air are not disturbing; and from far overhead comes a little tinkling from the light Æolian bells moved by the breeze high up on the Hte.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "olian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
