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Էջ 214 - A DIM and mighty minster of old time ! A temple shadowy with remembrances Of the majestic past! — the very light Streams with a colouring of heroic days In every ray, which leads through arch and aisle A path of dreamy lustre, wandering back To other years; — and the rich fretted roof, And the wrought coronals of summer leaves, Ivy and vine, and many a sculptured rose — The tenderest image of mortality — Binding the slender...
Էջ 75 - 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...
Էջ 55 - Of what avails it that I have bathed the entire universe with my sweat, that I have thrice passed through the New World discovered by my father, that I have adorned the banks of the gentle Beti and preferred my simple taste to riches, that I might again draw around thee the divinities of the Castalian spring and offer thee the treasures already gathered by Ptolemy, if thou, in passing this stone in silence, returnest no salute to my father and givest no thought to me?
Էջ 115 - ... whose despair is dumb when the fierce lightnings fly. Alonzo, with a handful more, escapes into the field, There, like a lion, stands at bay, in vain besought to yield ; A thousand foes around are seen, but none draws near to fight ; Afar, with bolt and javelin, they pierce the steadfast knight.
Էջ 199 - But when the fair Ximena came forth to plight her hand, Rodrigo, gazing on her, his face could not command : He stood and blushed before her ; — thus at the last said he — " I slew thy sire, Ximena, but not in...
Էջ 199 - Tis the Campeador's wedding, and who will bide away ? Layn Calvo, the Lord Bishop, he first comes forth the gate, Behind him comes Ruy Diaz, in all his bridal state ; The crowd makes way before them as up the street they go ;— For the multitude of people their steps must needs be slow.
Էջ 113 - Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel : and they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Էջ 113 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold. I will lay thy stones with fair colors and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Էջ 146 - A cry went through the mountains when the proud Moor drew near, And trooping to Ramiro came every Christian spear; The blessed Saint lago, they called upon his name: — That day began our freedom, and wiped away our shame.
Էջ 199 - Then comes the bride Ximena — the King he holds her hand ; And the Queen, and, all in fur and pall, the nobles of the land ; All down the street the ears of wheat are round Ximena flying, But the King lifts off her bosom sweet whatever there is lying. Quoth Suero, when he saw it (his thought you understand), " 'Tis a fine thing to be a King ; but Heaven make me a hand...