 His garden below, with its tank and broken fountain, was overgrown with tangled thickets of fig, mulberry, and almond, with a few patches of potherbs, and here and there an orange-tree or a cypress, to mark where once the terrace smiled with its blooming...  The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth - Page 258by sir William Stirling- Maxwell (9th bart.) - 1852 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1853 - 566 pages
...above, where he lived and died, maize and olives were gathered, and the silkworm wound its cocoons in dust and darkness. His garden below, with its tank...chosen the nest wherein to fold his wearied wings.' ART. ART. VI. — Des Intérêts Catholiques au XIXe Siècle. Par le Comte de Montalembert. Paris,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1853 - 576 pages
...and almond, with a few patches of potherbs, and here and there an orange-tree or a cypress, to murk where once the terrace smiled with its blooming parterres....chosen the nest wherein to fold his wearied wings.' ART. AKT. VI.— Des Inttret* Catholiques au XIX' SiMe. Par le Comte de Montalembert Paris, 1852. pOUNT... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...the gate the gre*tw;ilnut-tree, sole relic of the past with which time had not dealt rudely,spread *' < wO =P>| ɛU { sq w -Wm wr xCW ? x v... P u < A {E t2g a0E xbB x 葸 A zS G گ lsI E _ 1m From Hogg'* Instructor. THE RELIGIOUS POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES. BY GEORGE GILFILLAN.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...sole relic of the past with which time had not dealt rudely — spread forth its broad and vigoróos boughs to shroud and dignify the desolation. Yet,...imperial eagle had chosen the nest wherein to fold hU wearied wings." Thus ends this singular episode of history. We cannot but feel interested in it.... | |
 | 1853 - 944 pages
...which rears its giant head, and spreads forth its broad and vigorous boughs over the mouldering walls to shroud and dignify the desolation. Yet in the lovely...wide Vera, in the generous soil and genial sky, there is enough to show how well the imperial eagle had chosen the nest wherein to fold his wearied wings."... | |
 | 1853 - 888 pages
...where once the terrace smiled with its blooming parterres. Without the gate, the great walnut tree — sole relic of the past with which time had not dealt...boughs to shroud and dignify the desolation. Yet, m the lovely face of nature, changeless in its summer charms, in the hill, and forest, toad wide Vera,... | |
 | Henry Willis Baxley - 1875 - 428 pages
...Charles V," describing the scene of fire, plunder, wanton injury, and neglect, concludes thus — " Without the gate, the great walnut-tree, sole relic...chosen the nest wherein to fold his wearied wings." That " Imperial eagle " of whom the same accomplished writer, in another place, expressively says,... | |
 | William Stirling Maxwell - 1891 - 658 pages
...and spread forth its broad and vigorous boughs over the mouldering walls to shroud and dignify their desolation. Yet in the lovely face of nature, changeless...eagle had chosen the nest wherein to fold his wearied wings.1 1 [It was stated in the Spanish journals, in 1857, that the monastery of Yuste had, some time... | |
 | Sir William Stirling Maxwell - 1891 - 650 pages
...and spread forth its broad and vigorous boughs over the mouldering walls to shroud and dignify their desolation. Yet in the lovely face of nature, changeless...eagle had chosen the nest wherein to fold his wearied wings.1 1 [It was stated in the Spanish journals, in 1857, that the monastery of Yuste had, some time... | |
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