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Page 40
... scenes of Arabian story . We found ourselves in a great court paved with white marble and decorated at each end with light Moorish peristyles . It is called the court of the Alberca . In the center was an immense basin , or fish - pool ...
... scenes of Arabian story . We found ourselves in a great court paved with white marble and decorated at each end with light Moorish peristyles . It is called the court of the Alberca . In the center was an immense basin , or fish - pool ...
Page 44
... scene of their suffering , and invoke the vengeance of Heaven on their destroyer . From the Court of Lions we retraced our steps through the court of the Alberca , or great fish- pool , crossing which , we proceeded to the tower of ...
... scene of their suffering , and invoke the vengeance of Heaven on their destroyer . From the Court of Lions we retraced our steps through the court of the Alberca , or great fish- pool , crossing which , we proceeded to the tower of ...
Page 50
... scene ! Instead of the glit- tering line of mailed warriors , we behold the patient train of the toilful muleteer , slowly mov- ing along the skirts of the mountain . Behind that promontory is the eventful bridge of Pinos , renowned for ...
... scene ! Instead of the glit- tering line of mailed warriors , we behold the patient train of the toilful muleteer , slowly mov- ing along the skirts of the mountain . Behind that promontory is the eventful bridge of Pinos , renowned for ...
Page 66
... scenes caused me , on the 3rd of August , to withdraw from all society , and ascend the glacier , which for nearly two hours was al- most as even as a highway , no local danger calling away the attention from the near and distant ...
... scenes caused me , on the 3rd of August , to withdraw from all society , and ascend the glacier , which for nearly two hours was al- most as even as a highway , no local danger calling away the attention from the near and distant ...
Page 67
... scenes as this , with the noblest and most beautiful objects in nature around one , with the sense of danger raising the feelings at times to the level of awe . My way upward became more and more difficult , and circuit after circuit ...
... scenes as this , with the noblest and most beautiful objects in nature around one , with the sense of danger raising the feelings at times to the level of awe . My way upward became more and more difficult , and circuit after circuit ...
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Alamo Amyas Anto Antonio Ariel Ayacanora Battle of Trafalgar beautiful boat brave brother Caliban called canoes Charles Lamb charm command Communipaw daughter dear Discase Duke of Milan dukedom Dutch enemy Enter eyes Father Marquette fear Ferd Ferdinand fire fleet give Gonza Gonzalo Gordon Stevenson Halftone hand Hardy hath head hear heart hospital human Indians Irving island Jungfrau Katherine Maxey King of Naples lady land living look lord magic master means Mexicans Mira Miranda Miss Nightingale monster mountains mouth Nelson nettle never night Oloffe Peter Stuyvesant pipe play pr'ythee Pros Prospero river sail Saint Nicholas scene Sebas Sebastian Shakespeare ship shore soldiers Spaniards speak spirit Steph Stephano story strange swords Sycorax tell Tempest thee thing thou thought trees Trin Trinculo Victory voyage WASHINGTON IRVING wind word
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Page 285 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs...
Page 37 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress...
Page 431 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want, Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults As you from crimes would pardon'd be Let your indulgence set me free.
Page 415 - Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
Page 377 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man : any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 415 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel : My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Page 262 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Page 391 - Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 231 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet! For myself individually, I commit my life to Him that made me; and may his blessing alight on my endeavours for serving my country faithfully!
Page 38 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...