Letters of a TravellerD. Appleton, 1859 - 277 páginas |
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... Church of Santa Maria . - Sunday Gayeties . Quiet of the Night . - The Alameda . - Basque Children . - No Thieves . - Absence of Beggars . - The House of Mercy . - The Climate . - Oc- cupations of the Paupers . - The School . - The ...
... Church of Santa Maria . - Sunday Gayeties . Quiet of the Night . - The Alameda . - Basque Children . - No Thieves . - Absence of Beggars . - The House of Mercy . - The Climate . - Oc- cupations of the Paupers . - The School . - The ...
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... Church . - A Spanish Beauty . - A Drive into the Country . - Convent of Las Huelgas .-- A Lady Abbess . - Chant of the Nuns . - Chant of Priests ... LETTER X. - The Cartuja . - Monuments of Isabella the Catholic and her Broth- er ...
... Church . - A Spanish Beauty . - A Drive into the Country . - Convent of Las Huelgas .-- A Lady Abbess . - Chant of the Nuns . - Chant of Priests ... LETTER X. - The Cartuja . - Monuments of Isabella the Catholic and her Broth- er ...
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... church on the west bank of the Rhine . One need not wonder that those who liked the old order of things should lament that the Ge- neva of to - day is no longer the Geneva of their youth . In our way to Luchon we stopped for a short ...
... church on the west bank of the Rhine . One need not wonder that those who liked the old order of things should lament that the Ge- neva of to - day is no longer the Geneva of their youth . In our way to Luchon we stopped for a short ...
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... church of a remarkably graceful Gothic model , the light and airy shafts and arches carved out of the cream - colored stone , so easily wrought , with which they build in this country . There was some activity of a different kind - they ...
... church of a remarkably graceful Gothic model , the light and airy shafts and arches carved out of the cream - colored stone , so easily wrought , with which they build in this country . There was some activity of a different kind - they ...
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... churches , and to drive through some of its handsome promenades , and we took the dili- gence the next morning for this place , passing over the broad plains of the Garonne and through several very dirty French villages for the further ...
... churches , and to drive through some of its handsome promenades , and we took the dili- gence the next morning for this place , passing over the broad plains of the Garonne and through several very dirty French villages for the further ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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 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...
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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...
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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 |