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Page 236 - Her lover sinks — she sheds no ill-timed tear ; Her chief is slain — she fills his fatal post ; Her fellows flee — she checks their base career ; The foe retires — she heads the sallying host : Who can appease like her a lover's ghost ? Who can avenge so well a leader's fall?
Page 201 - And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder ; and He bid me taste of it ; and 'twas — the Grape ! The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The Sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute...
Page 39 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 185 - With bucklers braced before their breasts, with lances pointing low, With stooping crests and heads bent down above the saddlebow, All firm of hand and high of heart they roll upon the foe. And he that in a good hour was born, his clarion voice rings out, And clear above the clang of arms is heard his battle shout, ' Among them, gentlemen ! Strike home, for the love of charity ! The Champion of Bivar is here— Ruy Diaz — I am he...
Page 185 - Then bearing where Bermuez still maintains unequal fight, Three hundred lances down they come, their pennons flickering white ; Down go three hundred Moors to earth, a man to every blow; And when they wheel, three hundred more, as charging back they go. It was a sight to see the lances rise and fall that day ; The shivered shields and riven mail, to see how thick they lay; The pennons that went in snow-white come out a gory red; The horses running riderless, the riders lying dead ; While Moors call...
Page 26 - Calderon and in this work of Juan Valera we find that complete synthesis of gravity of matter and gaiety of manner which is the glittering crown of art, and which out of Spanish literature is to be found only in Shakespeare, and even in him in a far less obvious degree. It is only in Spanish literature, with the one exception of Dante, that religion and art are discovered to be not necessarily hostile powers...
Page 165 - Thou givest safety from the breeze to the blades of grass, and inspirest terror in the very stars of Heaven; when the shining stars quiver, it is through dread of thee, and when the grass of the field bends down, it is to give thee thanks.
Page 26 - ... of Spanish literature is to be found only in Shakespeare, and even in him in a far less obvious degree. It is only in Spanish literature, with the one exception of Dante, that religion and art are discovered to be not necessarily hostile powers ; and it is in Spanish literature only, and without any exception, that gaiety of life is made to appear as being not only compatible with, but the very flower of that root which in the best works of other literatures hides itself in the earth, and only...
Page 169 - he who comes to me, tortured by thirst, will find water, pure and fresh, sweet and unmixed. I am like the rainbow, when it shines, and the sun is my lord.
Page 226 - The leaves of the male palms and of the barren, female palms are also of market value, as they are cut at Easter, made up into bundles, blessed by the priests, and sold to the pious throughout Spain, who attach them to their houses as a safeguard against lightning. To prepare them for this use, the leaves are bleached on the trees by being tightly bound up. A tree can stand this operation once in four years, and the annual number so treated is about 8,000, each tree yielding about ten bundles.