The North American Review Volume 35 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...in fact, confined to a single point in the author's Spanish travels, being devoted entirely to a description of his journey from Seville to Granada, and a record of his domestic adventures and poetical musings among the ruins of the ancient palace of the Alhambra, which constitute the principal curiosity of that city. There are various other scenes in the track which Mr. Irving pursued in Spain, not inferior either in natural beauties or historical associations to Granada, and which would afford an equally favorable canvass for the embroidery of his brilliant and many-colored sketches. From the mountain capital of Toledo, where Roderic, the last of the Goths, beheld, in the magic mirror of black marble, prophetic images of the future fortunes of his country, to the Pillars of Hercules on the one hand and the passes of Fontarabia and Perpignan on the other, the whole Peninsula is peopled, as it were, with historical and poetical memorials. At the point of time when history first throws a clear light on the course of past events, we find Iberia employed by the two great rival republics of that day, as the field upon which they contended for the empire of the world. The genius of Rome prevailed, but had scarcely begun to repose from the toils of conquest, when the political fabric, which it had cost the persevering exertion of a thousand years to erect, crumbled into fragments. During the convulsive struggles of the following period, the Peninsula became again the great battle-ground of the ancient world. Two distinct races of men, one issuing from the frozen recesses of the North, and the other from the burning deserts of Arabia and Ethiopia, met upon the plains of Castile and rushed into conflict, with a fury proportional to the lofty semi-barbarous spirit a...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...in fact, confined to a single point in the author's Spanish travels, being devoted entirely to a description of his journey from Seville to Granada, and a record of his domestic adventures and poetical musings among the ruins of the ancient palace of the Alhambra, which constitute the principal curiosity of that city. There are various other scenes in the track which Mr. Irving pursued in Spain, not inferior either in natural beauties or historical associations to Granada, and which would afford an equally favorable canvass for the embroidery of his brilliant and many-colored sketches. From the mountain capital of Toledo, where Roderic, the last of the Goths, beheld, in the magic mirror of black marble, prophetic images of the future fortunes of his country, to the Pillars of Hercules on the one hand and the passes of Fontarabia and Perpignan on the other, the whole Peninsula is peopled, as it were, with historical and poetical memorials. At the point of time when history first throws a clear light on the course of past events, we find Iberia employed by the two great rival republics of that day, as the field upon which they contended for the empire of the world. The genius of Rome prevailed, but had scarcely begun to repose from the toils of conquest, when the political fabric, which it had cost the persevering exertion of a thousand years to erect, crumbled into fragments. During the convulsive struggles of the following period, the Peninsula became again the great battle-ground of the ancient world. Two distinct races of men, one issuing from the frozen recesses of the North, and the other from the burning deserts of Arabia and Ethiopia, met upon the plains of Castile and rushed into conflict, with a fury proportional to the lofty semi-barbarous spirit a...

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 12mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

218

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978-1-232-26864-2

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9781232268642

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1-232-26864-X



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