Letters of a TravellerD. Appleton, 1859 - 277 páginas |
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... close to their new convent , a good sample of the Romanesque style . I cannot think it improved by the fresco behind the altar , just finished from a design by Horace Vernet , representing Elijah taken up into heaven . Elijah is an Arab ...
... close to their new convent , a good sample of the Romanesque style . I cannot think it improved by the fresco behind the altar , just finished from a design by Horace Vernet , representing Elijah taken up into heaven . Elijah is an Arab ...
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... Close to our hotel , and within sight of its windows , lies the great Plaza of the town , and this was full of people , notwith- standing an occasional thin shower of drizzling rain . Here children of different ages were playing their ...
... Close to our hotel , and within sight of its windows , lies the great Plaza of the town , and this was full of people , notwith- standing an occasional thin shower of drizzling rain . Here children of different ages were playing their ...
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... close to the road , was a long , shabby building , two stories in height , with many doors , at one of the upper windows of which I saw a thin , brown woman , in a dress of the color of her skin , combing her hair . Behind the building ...
... close to the road , was a long , shabby building , two stories in height , with many doors , at one of the upper windows of which I saw a thin , brown woman , in a dress of the color of her skin , combing her hair . Behind the building ...
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... close fleeces plastered with dirt . I must be forgiven if I took most interest in the pig mar- ket . The pigs , of which I think I never saw the equals in length of legs and thinness of figure , and many of which had bristles curling ...
... close fleeces plastered with dirt . I must be forgiven if I took most interest in the pig mar- ket . The pigs , of which I think I never saw the equals in length of legs and thinness of figure , and many of which had bristles curling ...
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... tarily exclaimed : " How beautiful would all this be , if there were but a little green turf and a few trees ! " Close by was the village of Ameyugo , and a little stream with a pretty 88 A CASTILIAN TRAVELLER . name , the Oroncillo ,
... tarily exclaimed : " How beautiful would all this be , if there were but a little green turf and a few trees ! " Close by was the village of Ameyugo , and a little stream with a pretty 88 A CASTILIAN TRAVELLER . name , the Oroncillo ,
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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 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 |