Letters of a TravellerD. Appleton, 1859 - 277 páginas |
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... Italian architecture . Near the northern extremity of the street another company were occupied restoring and enlarging the Hotel de Ville . We passed a day and a half at Nîmes , in the comfortable and spacious Hotel du Luxembourg ...
... Italian architecture . Near the northern extremity of the street another company were occupied restoring and enlarging the Hotel de Ville . We passed a day and a half at Nîmes , in the comfortable and spacious Hotel du Luxembourg ...
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... Italians say prima donna - made his appearance with a red cloak on his arm , and a long , glittering , straight sword in his right hand . He shook the cloak at the bull , who made a rush at it , while the matador at the same moment ...
... Italians say prima donna - made his appearance with a red cloak on his arm , and a long , glittering , straight sword in his right hand . He shook the cloak at the bull , who made a rush at it , while the matador at the same moment ...
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... Italy , but is at once introduced to it , on the same footing with the natives . I find one objection , however , to the social arrangements of Madrid : that they make the evenings frightfully long . 128 LATE HOURS OF THE NOBILITY ...
... Italy , but is at once introduced to it , on the same footing with the natives . I find one objection , however , to the social arrangements of Madrid : that they make the evenings frightfully long . 128 LATE HOURS OF THE NOBILITY ...
Página 129
... Italian opera . The present con- dition of the stage is not made a matter of pride by the Spanish critics . The plays represented are generally taken at second - hand from the French , though , it is true , freely altered . One theatre ...
... Italian opera . The present con- dition of the stage is not made a matter of pride by the Spanish critics . The plays represented are generally taken at second - hand from the French , though , it is true , freely altered . One theatre ...
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... Italy , and whose full merit cannot be known to those who have never visited Spain . The place is made glorious with the works of the gentle and genial Murillo , whose best productions , spiritual without being highly intellectual , and ...
... Italy , and whose full merit cannot be known to those who have never visited Spain . The place is made glorious with the works of the gentle and genial Murillo , whose best productions , spiritual without being highly intellectual , and ...
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Alameda Algiers Alicante Arab Bagnères de Bigorre Basque Bayonne beautiful Briviesca broad brought building built bull bull-fight Burgos called CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS caps carriage Cartagena Castile Castilian cathedral chapel chulos church cloak Cloth coachman color crowd dark Don Pedro donkeys dressed entered eyes floor French fruit Full calf gentleman Gilt edges green Grenada ground groves Half calf hill horses hour houses journey ladies letter lofty look Luchon lying Madrid Malaga massive Miranda de Ebro Moorish morning mosque mountains mules Murcia night o'clock Old Castile Oran party passed planted pleasant priests provinces Pyrenees road rocks Rome rooms rows San Sebastian seats seemed seen shouted side sight Spain Spaniards Spanish steamer stone stood streets summit Swiss thing told took town travelling trees Urumea valley village Vitoria walk walls wind woman women young
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Página 279 - Russia. Trans, from the French. Thick 12mo. Cloth, 1 25 Dew's Digest of Ancient and Modern History. Svo. Cloth, 2 00 Don Quixote de La Mancha.
Página 149 - Of the people of the country I ought to carry away a most favorable impression, if such an impression could be produced by unwearied endeavors, with apparently no motive but simple benevolence, to make our stay agreeable. The American minister, Mr. Dodge, is very attentive to the convenience of his countrymen, and a great favorite -with such of them as come to Madrid. He is on excellent terms also with the people of the country, and has done, what I think few of his predecessors have taken the trouble...
Página 257 - Men who would never have thought of buying a picture or a statue at home, are infected by the contagion of the place the moment they arrive. No talk of the money market here; no discussion of any public measure; no conversation respecting new enterprises, and the ebb and flow of trade; no price current, except of marble and canvas; all the talk is of art and artists. The rich man who, at home, is contented with mirrors and rosewood, is here initiated into a new set of ideas, gets a taste, and orders...
Página 279 - Captain Canot ; or, Twenty Years of a Slaver's Life, Edited by Brantz Mayer. 1 vol. 12mo. Illustrated. Cloth, 1 25 Chapman's Instructions to Young Marksmen on the Improved American Rifle, 16mo.
Página 175 - The only narcotic in which the Spaniards indulge to any extent is tobacco, in favor of which I have nothing to say; yet it should be remembered, in extenuation, that they are tempted to this habit by the want of something else to do; that they husband their cigarritos by smoking with great deliberation, making a little tobacco go a great way, and that they dilute its narcotic fumes with those of the paper in which it is folded. With regard to the use of wine, I can confirm all that has been said...
Referencias a este libro
Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth ... Gifra-Adroher, Pere Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth ... Gifra-Adroher, Pere Vista previa limitada - 2000 |