Reminiscences of Spain, The Country, Its People, History, and Monuments1833 |
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Reminiscences of Spain: The Country, Its People, History, and Monumentṡ Caleb Cushing Vista completa - 1833 |
Términos y frases comunes
Aben Humeya Admiral Admiral's Alfonso Alhambra Aragon arms beautiful Bernardo del Carpio blood Castile cavalier Charlemagne church Colombo Columbus Conde de Orotava court cried crown Cuccaro Cusco dagger daring death Domenico Don Carlos Don Diego Don Enrique Don Fernando Doña Isabel earth edifice Emperor empire Escorial fame father Ferdinand fortune Francisco de Toledo Garci Perez Genoa Genoese Gil Cano Granada hand heart Holy Office honor horse Inca Indies Italy justice King knight lady lance Leon live lofty lord Madrid magnificent Manco Capac ment Moorish mountains noble Orihuela palace passed person Peruvians Philip possessed Prince Prospero Colonna Puerta del Sol Pyrenees Queen rage rich royal San Lorenzo Savona Sayri Tupac scene seemed soul Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit splendid sword thee thing thou throne tion Toledo Tupac Amaru Valenciano Valladolid vengeance walls wild youth
Pasajes populares
Página 43 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humors for a warrant • To break within the bloody house of life; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humor than advised respect.
Página 83 - But such is the infection of the time That, for the health and physic of our right We cannot deal but with the very hand Of stern injustice and confused wrong.
Página 4 - There, of Numantian fire a swarthy spark Still lightens in the sun-burnt native's eye; The stately port, slow step, and visage dark, Still mark enduring pride and constancy. And, cherished still by that unchanging race, Are themes for minstrelsy more high than thine; ‘Of strange
Página 117 - And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek;
Página 31 - Teems not each ditty with the glorious tale? Ah! such, alas! the hero's amplest fate! When granite moulders and when records fail, A peasant's plaint prolongs his dubious date. Pride! bend thine eye from heaven to thine estate: See how the mighty shrink into a song! Can volume, pillar, pile preserve thee great? Or must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue, When Flattery sleeps with thee, and History does
Página 118 - Death lay on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field
Página 118 - He still might doubt the tyrant's power,— So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last
Página 117 - but for that sad, shrouded eye That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for
Página 145 - could he have known that he had indeed discovered a new continent, equal to the whole of the old world in
Página 11 - of the Boabdils; conceive it with all its costly decorations, all the gilding, all the imperial purple, all the violet relief; all the scarlet borders, all the glittering inscriptions and precious