Letters from Catalonia and Other Parts of Spain, Volume 1Hutchinson, 1905 - 802 pages |
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ancient artist asked Barcelona beautiful blue Britain bull café called Casa Catalan Catalonia Cataluña cathedral charming Church colour Comillas Count of Barcelona creature curaçoa delightful eternal exquisite eyes face feel fellow flowers Frank Brangwyn Frank Mitchell French garden Gerona give green happy hear heart hills Holy Thursday horses Jacinto Verdaguer Jesuits José La Garriga labour lady laughed LETTER look Málaga Marqués marquesa mind morning mosquito nation never night Olot once perfect person pesetas picture pine Pitarra play pleasant poet poor Port Bou Provençal Pyrenees Rambla Ribas rose Santa Señor smile soul Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit splendid spring streets surely sweet things THIRLMERE thought Tibidabo to-day told trees Trevor Haddon true Verdaguer voice whilst wind wine woman women wonderful Xiró young
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Page 10 - When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain.
Page 161 - Une Andalouse au sein bruni ? Pale comme un beau soir d'automne ! C'est ma maitresse, ma lionne ! La Marquesa d'Amaegui. . "There never was such a title...
Page 108 - A una senora llamada de Lerma. Con vuestra gracia y beldad, Hermosa dama de Lerma, Dexastes del todo yerma Mi vida de libertad. Y de prision de tal suerte Mi sentido quedó tal, Que lo ménos de mi mal Es gustar siempre la muerte. Ante las muy extremadas Gracias, y muy excelentes, De quien mata mi...
Page 54 - We have reckoned with France and Austria. The reckoning with England has still to come ; it will be the largest and most difficult.
Page 178 - Casi en el medio de la noble gente De que es cabeza Barcelona ilustre, Grande ciudad, de gran riqueza y lustre.
Page 71 - Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner— and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy.
Page 105 - The British lion, whether it is roaming the deserts of India or climbing the forests of Canada, will not draw in its horns or retire into its shell.
Page 321 - Cuando al hombre sin abrigo Gran adversidad viniere, No se turbe , y considere Si trae algun bien consigo; Que teniendo en la memoria Lo que le salva y condena , Si el uno le diere pena , El otro le dará gloria. Quizá por caso movida , Señora, de mi aficion, Trocaste tu condicion , Mostrándote agradecida.
Page 42 - ... be, it is unceasing and unchanging ; for us mortals eternal. We are nearer the constellation now than we were ten years ago by thousands of millions of miles, and every future generation of our race will be nearer than its predecessor by thousands of millions of miles. When, where, and how, if ever, did this journey begin; when, where, and how, if ever, will it end ? This is the greatest of the unsolved problems of astronomy. An astronomer who should watch the heavens for ten thousand years might...
Page 164 - It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle ; for this is naturally pleasing to all, and every one willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable and manly thing.