History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic of Spain, Volumen2

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George Routledge, 1854
 

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Página 257 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Página 361 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Página 359 - Qué amigo de sus amigos! ¡Qué señor para criados y parientes! ¡Qué enemigo de enemigos! ¡ Qué maestro de esforzados y valientes!
Página 254 - The illusion which attaches to rank, more especially when united with engaging manners, might lead us to suspect some exaggeration in the encomiums so liberally lavished on her. But they would seem to be in a great measure justified by the portraits that remain of her, which combine a faultless symmetry of features, with singular sweetness and intelligence of expression.
Página 253 - My hand," says Peter Martyr, in a letter written on the same day to the archbishop of Granada, " falls powerless by my side, for very sorrow. The world has lost its noblest ornament; a loss to be deplored not only by Spain, which she has so long carried forward in the career of glory, but by every nation in Christendom; for she was the mirror of every virtue, the shield of the innocent, and an avenging sword to the wicked. I know none of her sex, in ancient or modern times, who in my judgment is...
Página 256 - Artifice and duplicity were so abhorrent to her character, and so averse from her domestic policy, that when they appear in the foreign relations of Spain it is certainly not imputable to her. She was incapable of harboring any petty distrust or latent malice; and, although stern in the execution and exaction of public justice, she made the most generous allowance, and even sometimes advances, to those who had personally injured her.
Página 255 - Naturally of a sedate, though cheerful temper, she had little taste for the frivolous amusements which make up so much of a court life ; and, if she encouraged the presence of minstrels and musicians in her palace, it was to wean her young nobility from the coarser and less intellectual pleasures to which they were addicted.
Página 253 - ... tenderness might have done so much to soften the bitterness of death. But she had the good fortune, most rare, to have secured for this .trying hour the solace of disinterested friendship; for she beheld around her the friends of her childhood, formed and proved in the dark season of adversity.
Página 419 - Ne cures ea, quae stulte miraris et optas, Discere et audire et meliori credere non vis? Quis circum pagos et circum compita pugnax 50 Magna coronari contemnat Olympia, cui spes, Cui sit condicio dulcis sine pulvere palmae?
Página 286 - ... fancies never clouded his judgment in matters relating to his great undertaking ; and it is curious to observe the prophetic accuracy, with which he discerned, not only the existence, but the eventual resources of the western world ; as is sufficiently evinced by his precautions, to the very last, to secure the full fruits of them, unimpaired, to his posterity. " Whatever were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish...

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