Spanish Pictures, Drawn with Pen and PencilReligious Tract Society, 1870 - Всего страниц: 200 |
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... plains , treeless and waterless ; districts , each as large as an English county , covered with blocks of granite or limestone , like the desert of Sinai . Geologically , as well as in appearance , Spain is but a northern extension of ...
... plains , treeless and waterless ; districts , each as large as an English county , covered with blocks of granite or limestone , like the desert of Sinai . Geologically , as well as in appearance , Spain is but a northern extension of ...
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... plain , which produced little except a meagre crop of prickly shrubs , and of withered stunted grass . A few flocks of sheep and goats wandered across the desolate plains and picked a scanty subsistence amongst the sand - hills . They ...
... plain , which produced little except a meagre crop of prickly shrubs , and of withered stunted grass . A few flocks of sheep and goats wandered across the desolate plains and picked a scanty subsistence amongst the sand - hills . They ...
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... plains . As Bayonne is approached the Pyrenees come into view . To one accus- tomed to the Alps the Pyreneean range wants grandeur . There are no vast sweeps of glacier and snowfield like those of Switzerland . In the whole chain ...
... plains . As Bayonne is approached the Pyrenees come into view . To one accus- tomed to the Alps the Pyreneean range wants grandeur . There are no vast sweeps of glacier and snowfield like those of Switzerland . In the whole chain ...
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... plains , thickly strewn with blocks of unhewn stone . Few habitations of any kind are passed , and those are mere wigwams distant from the road , and making its solitude seem the more solitary . From this wild waste of grey granite ...
... plains , thickly strewn with blocks of unhewn stone . Few habitations of any kind are passed , and those are mere wigwams distant from the road , and making its solitude seem the more solitary . From this wild waste of grey granite ...
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... plains in Seville , for instance , and other cities of Andalusia - is far more oppressive . The sudden gusts of keen north - east wind , against which it seems impossible to guard , and the cold nights succeeding to tropical days , are ...
... plains in Seville , for instance , and other cities of Andalusia - is far more oppressive . The sudden gusts of keen north - east wind , against which it seems impossible to guard , and the cold nights succeeding to tropical days , are ...
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Стр. 179 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Стр. 39 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Стр. 34 - It was about the lovely close of a warm summer's day, There came a gallant merchant ship full sail to Plymouth bay ; The crew had seen Castile's black fleet, beyond Aurigny's isle, At earliest twilight, on the waves, lie heaving many a mile.
Стр. 36 - Save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies, abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices ; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory ; through the merits of thy only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Стр. 136 - When one looks upon the fairy tracery of the peristyles, and the apparently fragile fretwork of the walls, it is difficult to believe that so much has survived the 'wear and tear of centuries, the shocks of earthquakes, the violence of war, and the quiet, though no less baneful, pilferings of the tasteful traveller : it is almost sufficient to excuse the popular tradition, that the whole is protected by a magic charm.
Стр. 39 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea. . . . This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth.
Стр. 84 - Lord cometh out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Стр. 40 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Стр. 35 - Parma ; for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Стр. 41 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light And the lantern dimly burning.