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...h THE CURSE OF KALI 47 century. It, too, is a handsome building, more European than Indian in architecture.’ John MacGregor pointed with his rid... ...ure Moghul palace. Helen was surprised at the incongruity of such a building amidst the European architecture of the Residency until Isabel explaine... ...lf on her ability to look behind the public masks that people displayed to the world. After all, Moorish and perhaps even gypsy blood ran in her vei...
...appearance and the jewels that adorned his person -- Dangerous jealousy of the Moorish merchants -- In the palace of the King -- Da Gama is made a pri... ...e one Vasco da Gama, a gentleman of the court, who had proved his valor in the Moorish wars, and his naval skill in more than one crusade along the co... ..., is strictly followed. Knowing the importance of the soothsayer, the captured Moorish merchant took time by the forelock, and when sent on shore with... ...enger would come from the shore to ask his business. A GREAT STORY-TELLER. The Moorish, merchant, who acted as the purchasing agent of the fleet, was ... ...ey had paid for everything they bought. Now that they were here, continued the Moorish merchant, they would, if permitted, buy drugs and spices and th... ... westward side of this table-land was located the city of Tlatlanquitepec, the architecture of which was vastly more imposing than that of any place t... ...refinement fully equal, if not superior, to that found anywhere in Europe. The architecture would rival that of the Moors, who introduced into Spain a... ...y log cabins, but the further one goes to the south the better is the style of architecture, and not very many miles from the mouth of the Yenesei the...
...machus Cathedral except Arthur. The time was not come for heed- ing church architecture or primitive history; and he only wandered about the narrow cr... ...d Victorine from peeping out of the cabin, whether prison or fortress, the Moorish sentries outside kept the door closed. How long this continued was ... ...ad filtered into her nursery. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI—A MOORISH VI—A MOORISH VI—A MOORISH VI—A MOORISH VI—A MOORISH VILL VILL VILL ... ...t to sea, away from the bay. He saw the black heads of two or three of the Moorish crew likewise floating on spars, and yielding themselves to the str... ...d of an Arabic foundation, but it was more comprehensible than that of the Moorish sailor, and bore some relation to a civilised language; besides whi... ...out as a common sailor in various merchant ships, had been cap- tured by a Moorish vessel, and had found it expedient to purchase his freedom by conve... ...ab dress. The Paris-like block of houses ill replaces the graceful Moorish architecture, undisturbed when the Calypso sailed into the harbour, and the... ...lasped his hand as his protector. The human figures were as strange as the architecture; the glittering of Janissaries in the outer court, which seeme...
.................................................................... 59 RURAL ARCHITECTURE. ................................................................ ...rdon, sail’d away to Spain, And fought with rage incessant Against the Moorish Crescent. But many days and many months, And many years ensuing... ... he has liv’d, So in the eye of Nature let him die. 63 Wordsworth RURAL ARCHITECTURE RURAL ARCHITECTURE RURAL ARCHITECTURE RURAL ARCHITECTURE RURAL... ...RCHITECTURE RURAL ARCHITECTURE RURAL ARCHITECTURE RURAL ARCHITECTURE RURAL ARCHITECTURE. . . . . There’s George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginal...
...lantry of the Spanish knight who, while Fernando and Isabel lay before the Moorish city of Granada, galloped out of the camp, in full view of besieger... ...gether, to advance upon the city of Rome. The great walls, of old Etrurian architecture, had probably already risen round the growing town, and all th... ...ely plains of the south, even to the Mediterranean coast, as one beautiful Moorish city after another yielded to the persevering advances of the child... ...med one of the gates of Spain. By it five hundred years previously had the Moorish enemy first entered Spain at the summons of Count Julian, under the... ... labour in the Afri- can dockyards, or to be chained to the benches of the Moorish ships which their oars propelled, until either a ransom could be pr... ...he captivity of Fernando less and less. The King of Castille, and even the Moorish King of Granada, shocked at his sufferings and touched by his con- ...
...her before, enormous wheels. The churches I saw were of the florid periwig architecture— I mean of that pompous cauliflower kind of ornament which was... ...solute; and I have always fancied that the bloated artificial forms of the architecture partake of the social disorganisation of the 13 Thackeray tim... ... an energy and impudence that would have done credit to Covent Garden. The Moorish castle is the only building about the Rock which has an air at all ... ...man Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan architecture, and a Court-house with a portico which is said to be an imita... ... hall of the divan, “large but low, covered with lead, and gilt, after the Moorish manner, plain enough. ”The Grand Vizier sits in this place, and the... ...s place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a magnificen... ...Gibraltar and Malta, nothing can be less romantic than the modern military architecture; which sternly regards the fight- ing, without in the least he...
...enna was given, was the son of the Duke d’Urbino, Catherine’s father, by a Moorish slave. For this rea- son Lorenzino claimed a double right to kill A... ...t famous family. Thus as soon as the Duca della citta di Penna, son of the Moorish woman, was installed as tyrant of Florence, he espoused the interes... ...le exposure to the north and south, that the counts of Blois built, in the architecture of the twelfth century, a castle where the famous Thibault de ... ...eco- rated than the Louvre, the chateau of Henri II. It is in the style of architecture now called Renaissance, and presents 70 Catherine dé Medici t... ...features of that style. Therefore, at a pe- riod when a strict and jealous architecture ruled construc- tion, when the Middle Ages were not even consi... ...ateau of Blois had, therefore, the merit of repre- senting three orders of architecture, three epochs, three sys- tems, three dominions. Perhaps there... ...- sentation of the manners and customs and life of nations which is called Architecture. At the moment when Christophe was to visit the court, that pa... ...a hexagon tower, in the empty well of which winds up a spiral staircase,—a Moorish caprice, designed by giants, made by dwarfs, which gives to this wo... ...icer to the grand stair- case, not without a glance of ecstasy at the semi-Moorish tower. The weather was fine, and the court was crowded with staff-o...
...express the wonderful energy of this great human movement which created an architecture, a music, a poetry of its own, a costume and manners. As you l... ...female chorus in two divisions, and in imitation, with a suggestion of the Moorish coloring of Spain. Here the terrifying music is softened to gentler...
...date palms, and majestic cork trees; and among them were white flat-roofed Moorish houses; but many a black stain on the fair landscape told of the fr... ...city of Cyprian—all had vanished alike, and nothing re- mained erect but a Moorish fortress, built up with fragments of the huge stones of the old Pho... ...feebly about among them, regarding them as little save stumbling-blocks. A Moorish house in the midst of a once well-laid-out gar- den, now trampled a... ...ce roused himself up, and bade him come in. He was one of those quick-eyed Moorish-looking infidels, in the big turbans and great goat’s hair cloaks; ... ...ised gateway, were in the most elaborate and ma- jestic style of defensive architecture; and the main building rose to a great height, filled with gal...
...loth, and his cap of the same colour, and he wore yellow buskins and had a Moorish cutlass slung from a baldric across his breast. Behind him, mounted... ...his breast. Behind him, mounted upon an ass, there came a woman dressed in Moorish fashion, with her face veiled and a scarf on her head, and wearing ... ...” By these words he excited a desire in all who heard him, to know who the Moorish lady and the captive were, but no one liked to ask just then, seein... ... themselves than for questioning them about their lives. Dorothea took the Moorish lady by the hand and leading her to a seat beside 298 Don Quixote ... ...he bystanders felt that if any beauty could compare with theirs it was the Moorish lady’s, and there were even those who were inclined to give it some... ... skilful construction and ingenu- ity of the vast fabric and its wonderful architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor, ‘...
...as it were, with appropriate ornaments, were all in the finest tone of the architecture of the age. Corresponding to the line of pillars, there were o... ...ch else I were unapt to endure. In plain language, then, I bring with me a Moorish physician, who undertakes to work a cure on King Richard.” “A Moori... ...’s chamber. Beside the couch sat on a cushion, also composed of skins, the Moorish physician of whom Sir Kenneth had spoken, cross-legged, after the E... ...yre entered the hut of the Scottish knight, the master was absent, and the Moorish physician, whom he had come to see, sat in the very posture in whic... ...e Scottish knight, who was the chief of- fender, and bestowed him upon the Moorish physician. He will not be severe upon a lady, though faulty.” “Devi... ...self. He followed his new master— for so he must now term the Hakim—to the Moorish tents which contained his retinue and his property, with the stu- p...
...love of books, both classical and modern. He delighted in music, painting, architecture, and many arts of a more mechanical description; wrote treatis... ...graving, showing how the Young White King obtains instruction in painting, architecture, language, and all arts and sciences, the latter including mag... ... manner, but because his graceful tastes, his love of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the mechanical turn which made him an improver of fire-ar... ... in his grave; but let her imagine him in Schlangenwald’s dungeon, or some Moorish galley, if thou likest it better, and how will her mild spirit be r... ...ptives had been driven down to the coast; where they were transferred to a Moorish slave- dealer, who shipped them off for T unis. Here, after their f... ...as plain that Sir Eberhard had learnt more Christianity in the hold of his Moorish pirate ship than ever in the Holy Roman Empire, and a weight was li...
...ays the author of the history is called Cide Hamete Berengena.” “That is a Moorish name,” said Don Quixote. “May be so,” replied Sancho; “for I have h... ... skilful construction and ingenu- ity of the vast fabric and its wonderful architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor, ‘... ...field and jineta fash- ion, and of mulberry colour and green. He carried a Moorish cut- lass hanging from a broad green and gold baldric; the buskins ... ... your worship’s to become the explorer of this, which must be worse than a Moorish dungeon.” “Tie me and hold thy peace,” said Don Quixote, “for an em... ...now called the Aljaferia; that lady who appears on that balcony dressed in Moorish fashion is the peerless Melisendra, for many a time she used to gaz... ...houts of the combatants sounded almost close at hand, and farther away the Moorish lelilies were raised again and again. In a word, the bugles, the ho...
... the wall. As an antiquity in this new land, a quaint specimen of missionary architecture, and a memorial of good deeds, it had a triple claim to pres... ...ech goes spiring and casting forth her arms, and, with a grace beyond church architecture, canopies this rugged chaos. Meanwhile, dividing the two can... ... but Gaelic had sounded in my ears; and our way had lain through- out over a moorish country very northern to behold. Latish at night, though it was s...
...towered into tragic strength. “Abbeys there were, and abbey windows”—”like Moorish temples of the Hindoos”—that exercised even princely power both in ... ...ng the word Ionic, De Quincey doubtless has in mind the character of Ionic architecture, with its tall and graceful column, differ- ing from the sever... ...he following version of the old story of the origin of the styles of Greek architecture in Vitruvius, IV , Chap. I (Gwilt’s translation), quoted by H...
...cumer, amidst brigands who defy all law and all avengers. The last Hispano-Moorish family of Granada has found once more the shelter of an African des... ...se reported the Prince’s reply, word for word, as follows: “Henarez is the Moorish name of the Soria family, who are, they say, descendants of the Abe... ...; his eyes were like the sun in power. “Oh!” I exclaimed, “what a world of Moorish perfidy in this attitude of perpetual prostration!” He understood, ... ...d, solid house, with its heating system and all the conveniences of modern architecture, which can raise a palace in the compass of a hundred square f...
... and gorgeous barges, and bringing out in full de- tail the glories of the architecture above, the tapestry-hung windows in the midst, the gaily-clad ... ...ale sixty feet long made its entrance and emitted from its jaws a troop of Moorish youths and maidens, who danced a saraband to the sound of tambourin...
... trite and stupid). The darkness of her Oriental eye Accorded with her Moorish origin (Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by; In Spain,... ...chafe, And then give way, subdued because surrounded; Her mother was a Moorish maid, from Fez, Where all is Eden, or a wilderness. There the... ...s kindled; full of power For good or evil, burning from its birth, The Moorish blood partakes the planet’s hour, And like the soil beneath it ... ...y Of those, forgetting the great place of rest, Who give themselves to architecture wholly; We know where things and men must end at best: ...
...ght naturally to be favorable to the art of murder, as they were to church architecture, to stained glass, &c.; and, accordingly, about the latter end... ...gic strength. “Abbeys there were, and abbey windows, dim and dimly seen—as Moorish temples of the Hindoos,” that exercised even princely power both in...
...nd countess. Stools covered with velvet, and some cushions disposed in the Moorish fashion, and ornamented with Arabesque needle-work, supplied the pl... ...cordingly, where the Countess playfully stretched herself upon the pile of Moorish cushions, half sitting, half reclining, half wrapt in her own thoug... ...fore, very unlike the monotonous stone pepperboxes which, in modern Gothic architecture, are em- 141 Sir Walter Scott ployed for the same purpose. On... ...or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in ex- tent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. Beyond the l... ...its different fronts magnificent specimens of every species of castellated architecture, from the Conquest to the reign of Elizabeth, with the appropr...
...althy owners were fast desert- ing in favour of new specimens of classical architecture as 7 Yo n g e understood by Louis XIV., and the room in which... ... venturesome explora- tions, that he may have fallen into the hands of the Moorish corsairs! Hargrave says it is rumoured; but my Lady will not be che...
... Mrs. Mansell and her visitors.’ 151 Yo n g e ‘Oho! No wonder Beauchastel architecture is so grand. What an impudent fellow you are, Jem!’ ‘The odd t... ...of this district, on the side a rich, red, sandstone-coloured church, late architecture, tower rather mouldering—all the more pic- turesque; churchyar... ...eps of a stone cross, exhorting the Provencals to arm against a descent of Moorish corsairs, and she held out her hand to Fitzjocelyn much as Adeline ...
...had the best of taste, the best of inexpensive rugs, a simple and laudable architecture, and the latest conveniences. Throughout, electricity took the... ... mankind was perhaps lessened by his large and complacent ignorance of all architecture save the types of houses turned out by speculative builders; a... ...to the old Obadiah, ‘So am I, Obadiah, so am I.’” X They had dinner in the Moorish Grillroom of the Hotel Sedgwick. Somewhere, somehow, they seemed to...
...th his eye lay the modern house; an awkward man- sion, indeed, in point of architecture, but well situated, and with a warm, pleasant exposure.—How ha... ...or I die.” Brown, meanwhile, proceeded northward at a round pace along the moorish tract called the Waste of Cumberland. He passed a solitary house, t... ...s of a dark, solemn, and somewhat melancholy cast, according well with the architecture of the house. Everything appeared to be kept in the highest po... ...st grace and ornament, is mingled and confused with the viler parts of the architecture. Oh, my good Mr. Gilbert Glossin, in my time, sir, the use of ...
...Paul — The man of upright life, from frailties free, Stands not in need of Moorish spear or bow. Well, a certain place is paved with good intentions, ... ...ent that it might not echo their footsteps. The graceful pile of cathedral architecture rose dimly on their left hand, but it was lost upon them now. ...
...a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so fre... ...thus viewed, they presented alternations of roan and bay, in shapes like a Moorish arch, the tail being a streak down the midst of each. Over these, a...
...th martial splendour; a rare old city, with strange costumes and wonderful architecture, to delight the eyes of little Amelia, who had never before se... ...ed by Mr. Wagg. The Eastern voyagers go off dancing, like Papageno and the Moorish King in The Magic Flute. “Last two syllables,” roars the head. The ... ...elieve that many more things took place in that sad affair than the worthy Moorish officer ever knew of); why, Miranda was even very kind to Caliban, ...
...ny re- ports. It seems that in this convent there was a woman of colour, a Moorish woman, who had been placed there very young by Bontems, valet of th... ...ng kept silence and everybody laughed; and it was true that this morsel of architecture, which was anything but a fountain, and yet which was intended... ...g stay at Toledo, but in quitting the town, burnt the superb palace in the Moorish style that Charles Quint had built there, and that, was called the ... ...re distributed everywhere 898 Saint-Simon with prodigality but taste. The architecture is correct and admirable, the marble is most exquisite; jasper...
...y from the hearthrug of Gateshead. I now glanced sideways at this piece of architecture. Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a s... ...be this crumbling grange, the row of scathed firs behind, and the patch of moorish soil, with the yew-trees and holly-bushes in front. I am obscure: R...
...ering ears, all their martial bones jin- gling in them at every step, like Moorish scimetars in scab- bards. But, though these barbarians dined in the... ...ld like to know? Shall I keep standing here? (Aside). ’Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here’s one. No, no, no; I must have a la...
...rs were admitted to the presence of the Turkish Emir through long lines of Moorish guards, and that they found the Emir with his eyes seriously fixed ... ...g Edward the Third was rendered memorable in better ways, by the growth of architecture and the erection of Windsor Castle. In better ways still, by t...
...ngering ears, all their martial bones jingling in them at every step, like Moorish scimetars in scabbards. But, though these barbarians dined in the c... ... like to know? Shall I keep standing here? (aside.) 3 ’Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here’s one. No, no, no; I must have a la...
...g up. This village, constructed in a singular and picturesque manner, half Moorish, half Spanish, still remains, and is inhabited by descen- dants of ... ...Between the court and the garden, built in the heavy style of the imperial architecture, was the large and fashionable dwelling of the Count and Count...
...he artificial voice pervad- ing the bowels of the yellow bird, tin armies, Moorish tum- blers, wooden tea things, and the riches of the earth. 328 Ou... ...e imagined to trace a family resemblance between the cherubs in the church architecture, 657 Charles Dickens and the cherub in the white waistcoat. S...
... Tarragona it happened I cannot say, but Diard presently recognized by its architecture the portal of a convent, the gate of which was already battere... ...ck-visaged Spaniard, much like the faces formerly carved on the handles of Moorish lutes; even the wife let a gay smile of hatred appear in the folds ... ...f light infused beneath that di- aphanous complexion,—due, perhaps, to the Moorish blood which vivified and colored it. Her hair, raised to the top of...
...cture. Let us therefore be more considerate builders, more wise in spiritual architecture, when great reformation is expected. For now the time seems ... ...tion. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his m...
...ll is discord, even the external decoration. The cabajoutis is to Parisian architecture what the capharnaum is to the apart- ment,—a poke-hole, where ... ...w cannon; on all sides the emblems of professions, and every style of art,—Moorish, Greek, Gothic,—friezes, ovules, paintings, vases, guardian-angels,...
...a T urkish minaret. The southwest face was the front, and was pierced by a Moorish arch fitted with glass doors, which could be secured on occasion by... ...of the balustrade. The windows on the upper story were, like the entrance, Moorish; but the princi- pal ones below were square bays, mullioned. The ca... ...considered grand by the illiterate; but architects and readers of books on architecture condemned it as a nondescript mix- ture of styles in the worst...
...own of Vanity, is closely paralleled in many of the cuts; and in both, the architecture of the buildings and the disposition of the gardens have a kin... ...OWE T HIS WAS A BIT of a steep broken hill that overlooked upon the west a moorish valley, full of ink-black pools. These presently drained into a bur...
...with steep streets dividing the rows. These were of very mixed quality and architecture, but, as a general rule, improved the higher they rose, and we... ...ill-top, one of which, being constructed on supposed Chinese principles of architecture, was known to its friends as “the Pagoda,” to its foes as “the... ...te repair, and two rooms, showing a sublime indifference to consistency of architecture, had been lately built out with sash windows and a slated roof... ... more years and a half, and take up the scene in the cloistered court of a Moorish house in Alge- ria, adapted to European habits. The slender columns... ...ere’s an apparition,” said Armine, as a bril- liant figure darted out in a Moorish dress, rich jacket, short full white tunic, full trousers tied at t... ...ine; a charming little history of a boy’s capture by, and escape from, the Moorish corsairs. Can you let me have it by Tuesday? I am very sorry to hav...
...h cosmography, Arithmetic, and modern his- 11 Sir Walter Scott tory; With architecture and such arts as these, Which I may call specifick sciences Fi... ...ccordingly , striking off the ordinary road, and holding their way by wild moorish unfrequented paths, with which the gentlemen were well ac- quainted...
... of the abbey; and of this by letters patent passed a very good grant. The architecture was in a figure hexagonal, and in such a fashion that in every... ...should the walls be built, rang- ing them in good symmetry by the rules of architecture, and placing the largest in the first ranks, then sloping down... ...Life. It is all with live stones that I set up and erect the fabrics of my architecture, to wit, men. It was, according to my opinion, quoth Pantagrue... ...d cages. The cages were spacious, costly, magnificent, and of an admirable architecture. The birds were large, fine, and neat accordingly, looking as ... ...f, good old hams, dainty somates, cakes, tarts, a world of curds after the Moorish way, fresh cheese, jellies, and fruit of all sorts. All this seemed...
...cayed actor himself.’ Johnson expressed his disapprobation of or- namental architecture, such as magnificent col- umns supporting a portico, or expens... ...ed not describe, as there is an account of it published in Adam’s Works in Architecture. Dr. Johnson thought better of it to-day than when he saw it b... ...ur as ever. He recommended to me to plant a consid- erable part of a large moorish farm which I had purchased, and he made several calculations of the...
...ut of tombs, and lava out of V esuvius; Spanish fans, Spezzian straw hats, Moorish slip- pers, Tuscan hairpins, Carrara sculpture, Trastaverini scarve... ... of the state windows, where their accoutrements hung drying on the marble architecture, and showing to the mind like hosts of rats who 458 Charles D...