A Queen of Queens & the Making of Spain

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Harper and brothers, 1906 - 371 strani
 

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Stran 118 - The Moorish King rides up and down, Through Granada's royal town; From Elvira's gates to those Of Bivarambla on he goes. Woe is me, Alhama! Letters to the monarch tell How Alhama's city fell; In the fire the scroll he threw, And the messenger he slew.
Stran 229 - THERE was crying in Granada when the sun was going down, — Some calling on the Trinity — some calling on Mahoun ! Here passed away the Koran, — there in the Cross was borne, — And here was heard the Christian bell, — and there the Moorish horn Te Deum Laudamus!
Stran 34 - Their shields before their breasts, forth at once they go, Their lances in the rest levelled fair and low ; Their banners and their crests waving in a row, Their heads all stooping down towards the saddle bow. The Cid was in the midst, his shout was heard afar, " I am Rui Diaz, the champion of Bivar ; Strike amongst them, gentlemen, for sweet mercies...
Stran 210 - ... it is better that the wicked should be destroyed a hundred ' times over than that they should tempt those who are as yet ' innocent to join their company. Let us but think what ' might have been our fate, and the fate of every other nation ' under heaven at this hour, had the sword of the Israelites ' done its work more sparingly.
Stran 14 - O, for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Roland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died...
Stran 233 - Paul ; there to hear a declaration from the lord chancellor, now cardinal. When they were assembled, the cardinal, standing upon the uppermost step, or half-pace, before the quire, and all the nobles, prelates, and governors of the city at the foot of the stairs, made a speech to them ; letting them know, that they were assembled in that consecrated place, to sing unto God a new song.
Stran 241 - I will assume the undertaking," said she, "for my own crown of Castile, and am ready to pawn my jewels to defray the expenses of it, if the funds in the treasury shall be found inadequate.
Stran 154 - Yet, in the power and activity of the Sultan, we may discern the infancy of the new science. Under a master who counted the moments, the great cannon could be loaded and fired no more than seven times in one day.
Stran 340 - I beseech the king my lord that he will accept all my jewels, or such as he shall select, so that, seeing them, he may be reminded of the singular love I always bore him while living, and that I am now waiting for him in a better world; by which remembrance he may be encouraged to live the more justly and holily in this.
Stran 229 - Farewell, farewell, Granada ! thou city without peer ! Woe, woe, thou pride of heathendom ! seven hundred years and more Have gone since first the faithful thy royal sceptre bore...

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