Spain yesterday and to-day. By the author of 'Portugal'.Darton & Harvey, 1834 - 276 pagina's |
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Pagina iii
... information , with illustrations of the various provincial costumes , and traits of national manners , would prove highly acceptable to the younger portion of the reading world . iv PREFACE . What the young mind would never have.
... information , with illustrations of the various provincial costumes , and traits of national manners , would prove highly acceptable to the younger portion of the reading world . iv PREFACE . What the young mind would never have.
Pagina iv
Spain. iv PREFACE . What the young mind would never have pa- tience to seek out in larger works , is here present- ed in a clear , concise form . The details of the Inquisition , the bull - fights , the Spanish Pro- testants , the ...
Spain. iv PREFACE . What the young mind would never have pa- tience to seek out in larger works , is here present- ed in a clear , concise form . The details of the Inquisition , the bull - fights , the Spanish Pro- testants , the ...
Pagina 17
... young people gazed on this war of the elements with awe , till the rain descended in torrents ; when all the fiercer features of the storm disappeared , and it ceased to interest them . Seated round the cheerful wood - fire burning on ...
... young people gazed on this war of the elements with awe , till the rain descended in torrents ; when all the fiercer features of the storm disappeared , and it ceased to interest them . Seated round the cheerful wood - fire burning on ...
Pagina 18
... young men of family and wealth , a prominent star in the ranks of fashion . Valér was , however , suddenly missed in the gay scenes which he used formerly to enliven ; yet his for- tune was unimpaired , and his health uninjured , A ...
... young men of family and wealth , a prominent star in the ranks of fashion . Valér was , however , suddenly missed in the gay scenes which he used formerly to enliven ; yet his for- tune was unimpaired , and his health uninjured , A ...
Pagina 31
... young women . reply to these solicitations was wonderfully simple and affecting : We will die in the faith of our brother he is too clever to be wrong , and too good to deceive us . ' The three stakes at which they died were near each ...
... young women . reply to these solicitations was wonderfully simple and affecting : We will die in the faith of our brother he is too clever to be wrong , and too good to deceive us . ' The three stakes at which they died were near each ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abassides ABENCERRAGES amusement ancient Andalusia appear Arabs astonishing attention beautiful Biscayan bull bull-fight Calle de Alcala Castille Catalonia Cathedral celebrated character church Columbus convent Cordova court Curtis dear Delville dress Edward Ellen English entered Escurial eyes father favourite feelings Ferdinand Ferdinand VII flock Frank French friars friends gave Grenada habits hand hear heart honour hundred inhabitants Inquisition inquisitors interest king laugh learned live look lumbus Madrid magnificent manner mantilla manufactory ment mind Moorish Moors mother mountains Murcia nation never Old Castille palace Palos papa persons Philip picador pleasure Prado protestant province racter religious remarkable round Salamanca scene seemed seen Segovia Seville sheep side Sierra Morena smile solemn Spain Spaniards splendid streets tain thing thought thousand tion Toledo took town travellers UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA Valencia Valér Valladolid walk wonderful wool young
Populaire passages
Pagina 4 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Pagina 3 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Pagina 51 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Pagina 33 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Pagina 4 - Each gift of nature, and each grace of art; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows; Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates on death.
Pagina 33 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Pagina 234 - When he had finished they sunk on their knees, and, raising their clasped hands to heaven, their eyes filled with tears of joy and gratitude, they poured forth thanks and praises to God for so great a providence, all present followed their example; a deep and solemn enthusiasm pervaded that splendid assembly, and prevented all common acclamations of triumph. The anthem...
Pagina 47 - A soulless thing, a spirit of the woods, He loves to commune with the fields and floods.
Pagina 148 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Pagina 172 - No withered witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew ! The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid.