Two Argonauts in Spain

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Payot, Upham, 1903 - 256 Seiten
 

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Seite 71 - That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 184 - The Alhambra, a name which will make my blood thrill if I live to the frosts of a century, not that the pleasure I received, on wandering over the immense extent of these most graceful and most picturesque of all ruins, was like the quiet, hallowed delight of a solitary, secret visit to the Coliseum or the Forum, when the moonbeams slept upon the wrecks of three empires and twenty-five hundred years, for it was nothing of all this ; but it was a riotous, tumultuous pleasure, which will remain in...
Seite 241 - Los suspiros son aire y van al aire. Las lagrimas son agua y van al mar. Dime, mujer: cuando el amor se olvida, ,;sabes tu adonde va?
Seite 184 - Forum, when the moonbeams slept upon the wrecks of three empires and twenty-five hundred years, for it was nothing of all this; but it was a riotous, tumultuous pleasure, which will remain in my memory, like a kind of sensual enjoyment, as long as it has vivacity enough to recall the two days I passed amidst this strange enchantment.
Seite 207 - He who has not seen Seville has not seen a marvel (Quien no ha visto Sevilla no ha visto maravilla) runs an Andalusian proverb, but there is nothing marvelous in Seville.
Seite 61 - Audalusian horses, as proud and as graceful as their masters and mistresses ; but nowhere, on the other hand, would one see the ignoble mule team amid such a procession of aristocratic carriages.
Seite 107 - If he had kicked the head off a bull-fighter or two, I would not have shed a tear.
Seite 196 - There are only three months of the year when Granada is fit to THE GOLDEN NUMBER live in.

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