 | Henry Howard Brownell - America - 1853 - 734 pages
...ever known," displaying, to the imaginative mind, an awful manifestation of the sympathies of nature. "It seemed as if the deities of Anahuac, scared from their ancient abode, were borne along shrieking and howling in the blast, as they abandoned the fallen capital to... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - America - 1855 - 738 pages
...ever known," displaying, to the imaginative mind, an awful manifestation of the sympathies of nature. "It seemed as if the deities of Anahuac, scared from their ancient abode, were borne along shrieking and howling in the blast, as they abandoned the fallen capital to... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1861 - 696 pages
...Ibid., ch. xxvii. || Ibid., ch. xxxii. T Hist, of Conquest of Mexico, bk. vi. ch. viii. VOL. XLIX. U was in unison with the fortunes of the ruined city...as they abandoned the fallen capital to its fate. Men take earnest note, as Louis the Fifteenth (no longer BienAime) lies a-dying, while the whole Court... | |
 | William Dalton - America - 1862 - 556 pages
...the few that yet survived — to their foundations. The lightning seemed to cleave asunder the vanlt of heaven, as its vivid flashes wrapped the whole...of the ruined city. It seemed as if the deities of Anahuue, scared from their ancient abodes, were borne along shrieking and howling in the blast, as... | |
 | William Dalton - America - 1872 - 636 pages
...tenements of Tenochtitlan — the few that yet survived — to their foundations. The lightning seemed to cleave asunder the vault of heaven, as its vivid flashes...blast, as they abandoned the fallen capital to its fate !" The day following the surrender, Cortes gave orders for the evacuation of the city, in order that... | |
 | John Frost - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1882 - 738 pages
...ghastly glare, for a moment, to be again swallowed up m darkness. The war of elements was in urrson with the fortunes of the ruined city. It seemed as...as they abandoned the fallen capital to its fate'" Cortes immediately assumed to himself the position which had been occupied by the Aztec emperor, as... | |
 | John Frost - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1882 - 732 pages
...heaven, as its vivid flashes wrapped the whole ' Pretcott, vol. iii. p. 205. t Ibid. viii. p. 2«»7 scene in a ghastly glare, for a moment, to be again swallowed up m darkness. The war of elements was in un son with the fortunes of the ruined city. It seemed as if... | |
 | John Frost - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1882 - 738 pages
...tenements of Tenochtitlan — the few that yet survived — to their foundations. The lightning seemed to cleave asunder the vault of heaven, as its vivid flashes wrapped the whole • Preicott, vol. iii. p. 206. t IMd- ™. P- 8"7 L 16 sccae in a ghastly glare, for a moment, to... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Mexico - 1898 - 524 pages
...tenements of Tenochtitlan — the few that yet survived — to their foundations. The lightning seemed to cleave asunder the vault of heaven, as its vivid flashes...of elements was in unison with the fortunes of the 81 The event is annually commemorated, or rather was, under the colonial government, by a solemn procession... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Mexico - 1904 - 432 pages
...tenements of Tenochtitlan — the few that yet survived — to their foundations. The lightning seemed to cleave asunder the vault of heaven, as its vivid flashes...blast, as they abandoned the fallen capital to its fate!33 On the day following the surrender, Guatemozin requested the Spanish commander to allow the... | |
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Mexican Valley. The thunder, reverberating from the rocky amphitheatre of hills, bellowed over the waste of waters, and shook the teocallis and crazy tenements of Tenochtitlan — the few that yet survived — to their foundations. The lightning seemed... 
