The Alhambra, by Geoffrey Crayon, Volym 1 |
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Aben Habuz Abencerrages Alhambra ancient Andalusian Antonia Arabian astrologer balcony barrancos battlements beauty behold blunderbuss Boabdil bosom bronze horseman buried called captive castle cavaliers chamber Christian contrabandista Cordova Court of Lions cried damsel Darro daughters delight discreet Kadiga Dolores duenna faith father flowers foot fortress gate gateway Generalife Gothic Granada groves guard guitar hall hand haunted ground heard heart hill Hussein Baba inhabitants Irem land legends light Lindaraxa lofty looked lover magic Mateo Ximenes ment Mohamed monarch Moorish king Moors Moslem moun mountain mule muleteer night old woman palace palfrey pile portal priest Princesses queen ravine remained renegado robbers rock romantic ruins Salobreña scene Señor side Sierra Nevada solitary Solomon the wise Spain Spaniard Spanish sparkling Squire steed story summit tains talisman thing thou Tio Nicolo tower of Comares traveller treasures valley vault Vega walls whole window Xenil Zayda Zorahayda Zorayda
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Sida 64 - An abundant supply of water, brought from the mountains by old Moorish aqueducts, circulates throughout the palace, supplying its baths and fish-pools, sparkling in jets within its halls, or murmuring in channels along the marble pavements. When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and parterres, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, tinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the...
Sida 58 - 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.
Sida 63 - ... look down upon the verdant valley of the Darro, the streets and convents of the Albaycin, and command a prospect of the distant Vega. I might go on to describe the other delightful apartments of this side of the palace: the Tocador or toilet of the queen, an open belvedere on the summit of the tower, where the Moorish sultanas enjoyed the pure breezes from the mountain and the prospect of the surrounding paradise ; the secluded little patio or garden of Lindaraxa, with its alabaster fountain,...
Sida 199 - ... the Church. He died suddenly, and the priests and friars thronged to take possession of his wealth; but nothing could they find but a few ducats in a leathern purse. The worst luck has fallen on me, for, since his death, the old fellow continues to occupy my house without paying rent, and there's no taking the law of a dead man.
Sida 129 - Sometimes I would hear the faint sounds of castanets from some party of dancers lingering in the Alameda ; at other times I have heard the dubious tones of a guitar, and the notes of a single voice rising from some solitary street, and have pictured to myself some youthful cavalier serenading his lady's window ; a gallant custom of former days, but now sadly on the decline except in the remote towns and villages of Spain.
Sida 37 - How many legends and traditions, true and fabulous ; how many songs and ballads, Arabian and Spanish, of love and war and chivalry, are associated with this...
Sida 195 - Padre, provided I am so well paid.' " ' Well, then, to-morrow at midnight I will call again.' " He did so, and the vault was completed. " ' Now,' said the priest, ' you must help me to bring forth the bodies that are to be buried in this vault.
Sida 83 - A remote wave of the great Arabian inundation, cast upon the shores of Europe, they seemed to have all the impetus of the first rush of the torrent. Their course of conquest from the rock of Gibraltar to the cliffs of the Pyrenees, was as rapid and brilliant as the Moslem victories of Syria and Egypt.
Sida 87 - Where are they ? Ask the shores of Barbary and its desert places. The exiled remnant of their once powerful empire disappeared among the barbarians of Africa, and ceased to be a nation. They have not even left a distinct name behind them, though for nearly eight centuries they were a distinct people.
Sida 54 - On the keystone of this arch is engraven a gigantic hand. Within the vestibule, on the keystone of the portal, is sculptured, in like manner, a gigantic key. Those who pretend to some knowledge of Mahometan symbols, affirm that the hand is the emblem of doctrine, and the key of faith ; the latter, they add, was emblazoned on the standard of the Moslems when they subdued Andalusia, in opposition to the Christian emblem of the cross.