Reminiscences of Spain, The Country, Its People, History, and Monuments1833 |
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Page 43 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humors for a warrant • To break within the bloody house of life; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humor than advised respect.
Page 83 - But such is the infection of the time That, for the health and physic of our right We cannot deal but with the very hand Of stern injustice and confused wrong.
Page 4 - There, of Numantian fire a swarthy spark Still lightens in the sun-burnt native's eye; The stately port, slow step, and visage dark, Still mark enduring pride and constancy. And, cherished still by that unchanging race, Are themes for minstrelsy more high than thine; ‘Of strange
Page 123 - And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek;
Page 31 - Teems not each ditty with the glorious tale? Ah! such, alas! the hero's amplest fate! When granite moulders and when records fail, A peasant's plaint prolongs his dubious date. Pride! bend thine eye from heaven to thine estate: See how the mighty shrink into a song! Can volume, pillar, pile preserve thee great? Or must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue, When Flattery sleeps with thee, and History does
Page 124 - Death lay on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field
Page 124 - He still might doubt the tyrant's power,— So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last
Page 123 - but for that sad, shrouded eye That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for
Page 156 - could he have known that he had indeed discovered a new continent, equal to the whole of the old world in
Page 10 - of the Boabdils; conceive it with all its costly decorations, all the gilding, all the imperial purple, all the violet relief; all the scarlet borders, all the glittering inscriptions and precious