My Real Castles in Spain1909 - 121 oldal |
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afternoon aisles Alameda Algeciras Alhambra altar Baedecker balcony beautiful Betty blue Boabdil breakfast bridge Calle De Alcalá called Capilla Mayor Captain Cathedral Chap chapel chicory church climbed Cordova corner Coro Court dark deck Delavan delightful dinner donkeys dream early entrance Escorial excitement eyes farewell feet fountain friends gates Gibraltar Giralda girls going Granada grey Hanson head hill Hotel huge hurried J. P. Morgan jumped Kings knew looked marble Mezquita Moorish Moors morning Mosque narrow night o'clock OLD CASTILE old Madrid Old Mole old Moorish orange trees palace Pannonia park Pennington Pierrepont Puerta queer remember rock Ronda rose royal seemed Segovia Seville side Spain Spanish steamer steps stood street strolled Tangiers Teddy tell things thought THRILL told Toledo tombs took town trip trunks visited walked walls watched window wonder
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50. oldal - With quaint arabesques of ice-fern leaf; Sometimes it was simply smooth and clear For the gladness of heaven to shine through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, z oo That crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one...
49. oldal - The little brook heard it and built a roof 'Neath which he could house him, winter-proof; All night by the white stars' frosty gleams He groined his arches and matched his beams; Slender and clear were his crystal spars As the lashes of light that trim the stars; He sculptured every summer delight In his halls and chambers out of sight; Sometimes his tinkling waters slipt...
54. oldal - Let Fate do her worst ; there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
12. oldal - THE SEA THE Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.
21. oldal - When my truant fancies wander with that old Sweetheart of mine. Though I hear, beneath my study, like a fluttering of wings, • The voices of my children and the Mother as she sings, I feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any theme When care has cast her anchor in the harbor of a dream. In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm...
74. oldal - It epitomizes the whole strange history of Spain in a manner so vivid, that he who visits its old nooks and corners carefully and thoughtfully, can work out, almost unassisted, the strange variety which that history affords.
96. oldal - Temple) in 1208, in imitation of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, and drove to the Santuario de Fuencisla, nestling up under the towering Pena de la Grajera.
92. oldal - II., in his own expression, wanted nothing more than a 'cell, in which he might bear his weary limbs to the grave' ; his successors created a palace and decorated it in the usual style of the 17-18th centuries. We ascend a granite staircase to the FIRST FLOOR, the rooms of which are decorated with Spanish tapestry (tapfces) after Goya, Bayeu, and Maella, from the Tapiceria of Madrid (p.
78. oldal - Long years ago, in old Madrid, Where softly sighs of love the light guitar, Two sparkling eyes a lattice hid, Two eyes as darkly bright as love's own star!
74. oldal - Few cities that I have ever seen can compete in artistic interest with it; and none perhaps come up to it in the singular magnificence of its situation, and the endless novelty and picturesqueness of its every corner.