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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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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,...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...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...