Letters of a TravellerD. Appleton, 1859 - 277 páginas |
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... eyes and jet black beards , wearing the high , shaggy Persian cap - one of them with features so regular and finely formed that they might have served as a pattern for an ideal bust - came up , and ad- dressing Mons . Vattemare in ...
... eyes and jet black beards , wearing the high , shaggy Persian cap - one of them with features so regular and finely formed that they might have served as a pattern for an ideal bust - came up , and ad- dressing Mons . Vattemare in ...
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... eye of the young adventurer untameable resolution and absolute confidence in his own fortunes . In the next picture , " Napoleon in his Closet , " you have him in the noon of life , his ambitious desires grati- fied , and the continent ...
... eye of the young adventurer untameable resolution and absolute confidence in his own fortunes . In the next picture , " Napoleon in his Closet , " you have him in the noon of life , his ambitious desires grati- fied , and the continent ...
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William Cullen Bryant. 16 NAPOLEON AFTER HIS FALL . moved , and his eyes staring into futurity with the fixed , sul- len gaze of despair . In all these portraits the artist has shown a power which , it seems to me , should place him in a ...
William Cullen Bryant. 16 NAPOLEON AFTER HIS FALL . moved , and his eyes staring into futurity with the fixed , sul- len gaze of despair . In all these portraits the artist has shown a power which , it seems to me , should place him in a ...
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... eye in Switzerland , and acres of linen at this season are seen bleach- ing by the streams . There were many good samples of linen in the exhibition . One of the most remarkable departments of Swiss indus- try is embroidery , and of ...
... eye in Switzerland , and acres of linen at this season are seen bleach- ing by the streams . There were many good samples of linen in the exhibition . One of the most remarkable departments of Swiss indus- try is embroidery , and of ...
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... eyes like beads of black glass . The troops , as twilight came on , took up their march for the city , the band playing as they went , and the nurses placing their young charges on their shoulders , hurried back with them . We saw ...
... eyes like beads of black glass . The troops , as twilight came on , took up their march for the city , the band playing as they went , and the nurses placing their young charges on their shoulders , hurried back with them . We saw ...
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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 |