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Affonso Henriques agua Alcacer Alcobaça Alemtejo Algarve Antonio ascend Badajoz Batalha battle beautiful Beira Beja Belem Bishop Braga Bragança bridge building called caminho Campo casa castle Castro cathedral cavallo celebrated chapel church Cintra Coimbra contains convent Count cross dias Diniz distance Dona Maria Douro Duke Duke of Bragança earthquake Elvas English erected estalagem Estrella Estremadura Evora Faro Fernando forms French Gerez ground Guadiana Hence hill horas horse inhab João João III José king kingdom Lamego Largo leagues Leiria Lisbon Mafra magnificent Manoel Minho Monção Monchique Moorish mountains Não paintings palace pass Pedro Pombal Ponte Portalegre Portimão Porto Portugal Portuguese Praça province Quero Quinta Reis river road ROUTE Santa Santarem scenery Senhor Serra side siege Spain Spanish steamer Tagus tion tomb Torre tower town traveller Traz os Montes valley Vasco Venda Vianna Villa Nova Viseu whole wine
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Page lx - I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Page xxxiv - Having satisfied our curiosity by examining the ornaments of the altar, we passed through a long covered gallery to the sacristy, a magnificent vaulted hall, panelled with some beautiful varieties of alabaster and porphyry, and carpeted, as well as a chapel adjoining it, in a style of the utmost magnificence. We traversed several more halls and chapels, adorned with equal splendour, till we were fatigued and bewildered, like knights errant in the mazes of an enchanted palace.
Page xxxix - ... precincts, which included a circumference of about four miles, were walled in. Within that circuit were various chapels and religious stations ; and on the summit of the mountain, which is within the inclosure, a stone cross was erected of enormous size, upon so huge a foundation that three thousand cart-loads of stone were employed in constructing its base. The cells of the brethren were round the church, not in a regular building, but accommodated to. the irregularities of the ground, and lined...
Page xxxiv - Roses of white marble and wreaths of palm branches, most exquisitely sculptured, enrich every part of the edifice. I never saw Corinthian capitals better modelled, or executed with more precision and sharpness, than those of the columns which support the nave.
Page xlix - Wellington had reason to think it might delay the en'-my till late in the season, even if he should be unable to find an opportunity of relieving it. These wellfounded expectations were frustrated by one of those chances which sometimes disconcert the wisest plans, and disappoint the surest hopes of man. On the night after the batteries opened, the large powder magazine in the citadel, with two smaller ones contiguous to it, blew up. More than half the artillerymen, a great number of the garrison,...
Page 3 - Travels in Portugal, through the Provinces of Entre Douro e Minho, Beira, Estremadura, and Alem-tejo, in the Years 1789 and 1790, consisting of Observations on the Manners, Customs, Trade, Public Buildings, Arts, Antiquities, &c., o^ that Kingdom, 4to.
Page 11 - Coimbra, and its cypresses and orange groves and olives, its hills and mountains, its venerable buildings, and its dear river, of the Vale of Algarve, the little islands of beauty amid the desert of Alemtejo, and, above all, of Cintra, the most blessed spot in the habitable globe, will almost bring tears into my eyes.
Page xxxix - ... life, and thus indulge the heroism of ascetic devotion in security. The convent, surrounded by an extensive and almost impervious wood, stands in what may be called the crater of the loftiest part of the ridge ; its precincts, which included a circumference of about four miles, were walled in. Within that circuit were various chapels and religious stations ; and on the summit of the mountain, which is within the...
Page xxxvii - Many youths of the district are maintained and educated by the fathers. Hundreds of indigent people are constantly fed at their gatej, and their tenantry are apparently as comfortable as any in the kingdom. Those who speak against their opulence would do well to inquire whether there be a nobleman in Europe possessed of a revenue equal to that of the monastery, who diffuses so many blessings among his fellow-beings as the fathers of Alcobaca.
Page 4 - OVERLAND JOURNEY TO LISBON AT THE CLOSE OF 1846 ; WITH A PICTURE OF THE ACTUAL STATE OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. BY TM HUGHES ESQ,, Author of "Revelations of Spain.