 | 1833 - 814 pages
...delicate and graceful taste, and a disposition to indolent enjoyment. When one looks upon the fair tracery of the peristyles, and the apparently fragile...earthquakes, the violence of war, and the quiet, though not less baneful, pilferings of the tasteful traveller " There is a Moorish tradition, that the king... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...a delicate and graceful taste, and disposition to indolent enjoyment. When one looks upon the fair tracery of the peristyles, and the apparently fragile...earthquakes, the violence of war, and the quiet, though not less baneful, pilferings of the tasteful traveller. " There is a Moorish tradition, that the king... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...delicate and graceful taste, and a disposition to indolent enjoyment. When one looks upon the fair tracery of the peristyles, and the apparently fragile...much has survived the wear and tear of centuries, the shock of earthquakes, the violence of war, and the quiet and no less baneful pilfering of the tasteful... | |
 | Frances Anne Vane Marchioness of Londonderry - Africa, North - 1843 - 152 pages
...than grandeur ; bespeaking a delicate and " graceful taste, and a disposition to indolent enjoy" ment. When one looks upon the fairy tracery " of the peristyles,...believe that " so much has survived the wear and tear of cen•' turies, the shocks of earthquakes, the violence of " war, and the quiet, though no less baneful... | |
 | Book - 1851 - 274 pages
...taste, and a disposition to indolent enjoyment. When one looks upon the fair tracery of the columns, and the apparently fragile fret-work of the walls,...earthquakes, the violence of war, and the quiet, though not less baneful, pilferings of the tasteful traveller. Certainly there never was an edifice accomplished... | |
 | Samuel Manning - Spain - 1870 - 228 pages
...of white marble. The architecture, like that of all the other parts of the palace, is characterised by elegance rather than grandeur ; bespeaking a delicate...and tear of centuries, the shocks of earthquakes, and the violence of war : it is almost sufficient to excuse the popular tradition, that the whole is... | |
 | Samuel Manning - Spain - 1870 - 216 pages
...of white marble. The architecture, like that of all the other parts of the palace, is characterised by elegance rather than grandeur ; bespeaking a delicate...and tear of centuries, the shocks of earthquakes, and the violence of war : it is almost sufficient to excuse the popular tradition, that the whole is... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 516 pages
...delicate and graceful taste, and a disposition to indolent enjoyment. When one looks upon the fairy traces of the peristyles, and the apparently fragile fretwork...violence of war, and the quiet, though no less baneful, pilferiugs of the tasteful traveller : it is almost sufficient to excuse the popular tradition, that... | |
 | 1874 - 852 pages
...great gateway of the Alhambra. J Gwilt. § When one looks upon the fairy tracery of the peristyle, and the apparently fragile fretwork of the walls,...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... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1875 - 436 pages
...great gateway of the Alhambra. J Gwilt. § When one looka upon the fairy tracery of the peristyle, and the apparently fragile fretwork of the walls,...violence of war, and the quiet though no less baneful pilfc rings of the tasteful traveller; it is almost sufficient to excuse the popular tradition that... | |
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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,... 
