Letters from Catalonia, and other parts of Spain, by Rowland Thirlmere, Volume 2

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Page 784 - Dios rey de Castilla, de Leon, de Aragon, de las Dos Sicilias, de Jerusalen, de Navarra, de Granada, de Toledo, de Valencia de Galicia, de Mallorca, de Sevilla, de Cerdeña, de Córdoba, de Córcega, de Murcia, de Jaen, de los Algarbes, de Algeciras, de Gibraltar, de las islas de...
Page 784 - Occidentales, islas y tierra firme del Mar Océano, archiduque de Austria, duque de Borgoña, de Brabante y de Milán, conde de Abspurg, de Flandes, Tirol y Barcelona, señor de Vizcaya y de Molina, etc.
Page 451 - THROUGH many a land and clime a ranger, With toilsome steps, I've <held my way A lonely unprotected stranger, To all the stranger's ills a prey.
Page 485 - Ceux qui vivent, ce sont ceux qui luttent; ce sont Ceux dont un dessein ferme emplit l'âme et le front, Ceux qui d'un haut destin gravissent l'âpre cime, Ceux qui marchent pensifs, épris d'un but sublime, Ayant devant les yeux sans cesse, nuit et jour, Ou quelque saint labeur ou quelque grand amour.
Page 417 - Des chevaliers qui sont partis dès longtemps, pour plus loin, pour la vie des chevaliers qui sont partis, Dame, savez-vous morts ou vies? — Ils étaient droits sous la caresse de mes yeux, leurs yeux noirs pour la vie ils étaient fiers sous la caresse de mes yeux, leurs églises pour la vie. — Ils partaient en douce croisade, pour longtemps, pour plus loin, pour la vie ils partaient chercher l'embrassade d'une mort plus fraîche...
Page 700 - I was particularly attentive to the choice of my words, to the harmony and roundness of my periods, to my elocution, to my action. This succeeded, and ever will succeed: they thought I informed, because I pleased them ; and many of them said that I had made the whole very clear to them, when, God knows, I had not even attempted it.
Page 754 - Never mind," cried a jovial painter, quoting the last words of Sir Joshua Reynolds, " we're all going to heaven, and Van Dyck is of the company...
Page 446 - This was a solemn rite, a never-to-be-forgotten impression. Instinctively I felt that perhaps never again in my life would I have such an experience — never again would I enjoy such perfection of weather, society, and good spirits in the beautiful Orange Land. Light passes from the moon to the earth in one and a quarter seconds, but not a thousandth part of that time is required for a man's soul to pass into the presence of God. He was visibly manifest in that moonlit grove, shining in the silver...
Page 783 - History has a trick of repeating herself. We must never forget that the Spaniard, Trajan, was the first barbarian to be named Emperor of Rome, and the only emperor whose ashes were allowed to rest within the walls of the mother of cities. Nor must we fail to remember that the Spaniard, Hadrian, the literary exquisite, became the virtual master of the world. When some new Juan de Mariana comes to write the story of the twentieth century, who knows what he may have to set down of his Catholic Majesty...
Page 515 - Leger. PEASANTS SELLING THEIR PRODUCE. in the local industry — that useful lana of which Soler has sung in his virile Catalan : — Es a...

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