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Aben Habuz Abencerrages alcayde Alcazaba Alhama Alhambra Allah Alonzo de Aguilar Andalusia arms army arrived attack banner battle battlements Baza beautiful beheld Boabdil el Chico captives Castilian castle cavaliers chivalry Christian Christian camp Cidi Yahye command Cordova count de Cabra court cried defence Don Alonzo El Zagal enemy eyes faith fight foot force fortress Fray Antonio Agapida gardens garrison gates Granada Guadix guard hall Hamet el Zegri hand heard heart height Hernando del Pulgar hill holy horse infidel inhabitants Isabella Jaen king Ferdinand kingdom kingdom of Granada lance lofty looked los Palacios Loxa Malaga marques of Cadiz monarch Moorish Moorish king Moors Moslem mountains Muley Aben Hassan night noble palace passed prince princess Pulgar queen remained renegado retreat rock Ronda royal sallied scene siege soldier Spain Spanish spirit steed surrender sword thou tower town troops valiant valley vega walls warriors Xenel Zagal
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Page 8 - The vulture and the eagle are seen wheeling about the mountain cliffs and soaring over the plains, and groups of shy bustards stalk about the heaths, but the myriads of smaller birds, which animate the whole face of other countries, are met with in but few provinces of Spain, and in them chiefly among the orchards and gardens which surround the habitations of man.
Page 351 - to weep like a woman for what you failed to defend like a man!' The vizier, Aben Comixa, endeavoured to console his royal master. 'Consider, sire,' said he, 'that the most signal misfortunes often render men as renowned as the most prosperous achievements, provided they sustain them with magnanimity.
Page 46 - Sometimes I would hear the faint sounds of castanets from some party of dancers lingering in the Alameda, at other times I have heard the dubious tones of a guitar, and the notes of a single voice rising from some solitary street, and have pictured to myself some youthful cavalier serenading his lady's window; a gallant custom of former days, but now sadly on the decline, except in the remote towns and villages of Spain.
Page 20 - How many legends and traditions, true and fabulous ; how many songs and ballads, Arabian and Spanish, of love and war and chivalry, are associated with this...
Page 25 - Darro, for the supply of the fortress. Here, also, is a well of immense depth, furnishing the purest and coldest of water, — another monument of the delicate taste of the Moors, who were indefatigable in their exertions to obtain that element in its crystal purity.
Page 182 - Alhambra, a stanch old soldier, well known as Governor Manco ; while such a warrior holds command of the very outpost, and stands ready to check the first irruption from the mountain, I fear Boabdil and his soldiery must be content to rest upon their arms.
Page 28 - An abundant supply of water, brought from the mountains by old Moorish aqueducts, circulates throughout the palace, supplying its baths and fish-pools, sparkling in jets within its halls, or murmuring in channels along the marble pavements. When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and parterres, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, tinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the...
Page 26 - When one looks upon the fairy traces of the peristyles, and the apparently fragile fretwork of the walls, it is difficult to believe that so much has survived the wear and tear of centuries, the shocks of earthquakes, the violence of war, and the quiet, though no less baneful, pilferings of the tasteful traveller: it is almost sufficient to excuse the popular tradition, that the whole is protected by a magic charm.