Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and PortugalBiggs and Cottle, 1799 - 483 páginas |
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Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal (Classic Reprint) Robert Southey Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Página 251 - De escuadras juntas veo en un momento. »Cubre la gente el suelo, Debajo de las velas desparece La mar, la voz al cielo Confusa y varia crece, El polvo roba el día y le escurece.
Página 134 - For I must speak what wisdom would conceal, And truths, invidious to the great, reveal, Bold is the task, when subjects, grown too wise, Instruct a monarch where his error lies ; For though we deem the short-lived fury past, 'Tis sure the mighty will revenge at last.
Página 31 - ... all good Christians, for a soul just departing ; the other, to drive away the evil spirits who stood at the bed's foot, and about the house, ready to seize their prey, or at least to molest and terrify the soul in its passage : but by the ringing of that bell (for Durandus informs us evil spirits are much afraid of bells,) they were Kept aloof ; and the soul, like a hunted hare, gained the start, or had what is by sportsmen called law.
Página 289 - He was imprisoned till the following market day ; then, in the presence of all the people, he was conducted to the place of execution by an officer of justice, who read to him his sentence — " Inhuman young man, because you did not assist...
Página 32 - Men's death I tell by doleful knell ; Lightning and thunder I break asunder ; On Sabbath all to church I call ; The sleepy head I raise from bed ; The winds so fierce I do disperse ; Men's cruel rage I do assuage.
Página 289 - He then hung a black board round his neck, with this inscription, " A savage and inhuman young man ;" and, after inflicting upon him twenty-five stripes, he proceeded, " Inhuman young man, you have now felt a very small degree of the pain with which you tortured a helpless animal in its hour of death. As you wish for mercy from that God who created all that live, learn humanity for the future*" He then executed the remainder of the sentence.
Página 251 - Oye que al cielo toca con temeroso son la trompa fiera, que en África convoca el moro a la bandera, que al aire desplegada va ligera.
Página 169 - I1IZARRO here was born ; a greater name The list of Glory boasts not. Toil and Pain, Famine and hostile Elements, and Hosts Embattled, failed to check him in his course, Not to be wearied, not to be deterred, Not to be overcome. A mighty realm He overran, and with relentless arm Slew or enslaved its unoffending sons ; And wealth and power and fame were his rewards. There...
Página 252 - Acude, corre, vuela, Traspasa el alta sierra, ocupa el llano, No perdones la espuela, No des paz á la mano, Menea fulminando el hierro insano.
Página 250 - If bread, why is it worshiped by the baker ? If God, can such a space a God comprise ? If bread, how is it it confounds the wise ? If God, how is it that we eat our Maker ? If bread, what good can such a morsel do ? If God, how is it we divide it BO ? If bread, such saving virtue could it give?