Spanish Cities: With Glimpses of Gibraltar and Tangier

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C. Scribner's sons, 1892 - Всего страниц: 228
 

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Стр. 228 - From house to house all over, in the way that they must march; They have hung it all with lances, and shields, and glittering helms, Brought by the Campeador from out the Moorish realms. They have scattered olive branches and rushes on the street, And the ladies fling down garlands at the Campeador's feet; With tapestry and broidery their balconies between, To do his bridal honour, their walls the burghers screen.
Стр. 84 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Стр. 228 - Tis the Campeador's wedding, and who will bide away? Layn Calvo, the Lord Bishop, he first comes forth the gate, Behind him comes Ruy Diaz, in all his bridal state ; The crowd makes way before them as up the street they go ;For the multitude of people their steps must needs be slow.
Стр. 228 - To do his bridal honor, their walls the burghers screen. They lead the bulls before them all covered o'er with trappings ; The little boys pursue them with hootings and with clappings ; The fool, with cap and bladder, upon his ass goes prancing, Amidst troops of captive maidens with bells and cymbals dancing.
Стр. 228 - They lead the bulls before them all covered o'er with trappings; The little boys pursue them with hootings and with clappings ; The fool, with cap and bladder, upon his ass goes prancing, Amidst troops of captive maidens with bells and cymbals dancing. With antics and with fooleries, with shouting and with laughter, They fill the streets of Burgos — and The Devil he comes after ; For the King has hired the horned fiend for sixteen maravedis, And there he goes, with hoofs for toes, to terrify the...
Стр. 90 - In acknowledgement of the many and great blessings which it has pleased God to heap on us and continue to us daily, and, inasmuch as He has been pleased to direct and guide our deeds and acts to his Holy service, and in maintenance and defence of His holy faith and religion, and of justice and peace within our realms ; considering, likewise, what the emperor and king, my lord and father, in a codicil which he lately made, committed to our care, and charged us with, respecting his tomb, the spot and...
Стр. 36 - ... Don Carlos. Then political dissensions arose within the mystic circle ; half the monks were royalists, half were Carlists, and the latter, considering themselves oppressed, and muttering vengeance, whispered abroad tales of secret dungeons and of hidden torture. The public curiosity became excited. Many yet live who remember the scene when the convent doors were broken in by night, and the townsfolk, streaming through court and cloister, reached the room which had been designated, where, against...
Стр. 36 - He who became a monk of Poblet had to prove his pedigree, and the chapter sate in solemn deliberation upon his quarterings. Every monk had his two servants, and rode upon a snow-white mule. The mules of the friars were sought through the whole peninsula at an enormous expense. Within the walls every variety of trade was represented ; no monk need seek for anything beyond his cloister : the tailors, the shoemakers, the apothecaries, had each their wing or court. Hospitals were raised on one side for...
Стр. 91 - ... and place where his body and that of the empress and queen, my lady and mother, should be placed: it being just and meet that their bodies should be most duly honoured with a befitting burial-ground, and that for their souls be said continually masses, prayers, anniversaries, and other holy records, and because we have, besides, determined that whenever it may please God to take us away to Him, our body should rest in the same place and spot near theirs .... for all these reasons we found and...
Стр. 175 - You ask me respecting the state of the queen's health. We sit sorrowful in the palace all day long, tremblingly waiting the hour when religion and virtue shall quit the earth with her. Let us pray that we may be permitted to follow hereafter where she is soon to go. She so far transcends all human excellence, that there is scarcely anything of mortality about her. She can hardly be said to die, but to pass into a nobler existence, which should rather excite our envy than our sorrow. She leaves the...

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