Tales of the AlhambraMiguel Sanchez, 1875 - 308 pages |
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... steed , hovers about them , like a pirate about a merchant convoy , without daring to make an assault . The Spanish muleteer has an inexhaustible stock of songs and ballads , with which to beguile his incessant B 2 THE JOURNEY . 3.
... steed , hovers about them , like a pirate about a merchant convoy , without daring to make an assault . The Spanish muleteer has an inexhaustible stock of songs and ballads , with which to beguile his incessant B 2 THE JOURNEY . 3.
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Washington Irving. songs and ballads , with which to beguile his incessant way- faring . The airs are rude and simple ... song of the muleteer is composed at the instant , and relates to some local scene , or some incident of the journey ...
Washington Irving. songs and ballads , with which to beguile his incessant way- faring . The airs are rude and simple ... song of the muleteer is composed at the instant , and relates to some local scene , or some incident of the journey ...
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... songs , stories of robbers , guerilla exploits , and Moorish legends . The last were from our handsome landlady , who gave a poetical account of the Infiernos , or infernal regions of Loxa - dark caverns , in which subterranean streams ...
... songs , stories of robbers , guerilla exploits , and Moorish legends . The last were from our handsome landlady , who gave a poetical account of the Infiernos , or infernal regions of Loxa - dark caverns , in which subterranean streams ...
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... songs and romances , Spanish and Arabian , of love , and war , and chivalry , are associated with this romantic pile ! reader may judge , therefore , of our delight , when , shortly after our arrival in Granada , the Governor of the ...
... songs and romances , Spanish and Arabian , of love , and war , and chivalry , are associated with this romantic pile ! reader may judge , therefore , of our delight , when , shortly after our arrival in Granada , the Governor of the ...
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... song . This street led up to a massive gate- way of Grecian architecture , built by Charles V. , forming the entrance to the domains of the Alhambra . At the gate were two or three ragged and superannuated soldiers , dozing on a stone ...
... song . This street led up to a massive gate- way of Grecian architecture , built by Charles V. , forming the entrance to the domains of the Alhambra . At the gate were two or three ragged and superannuated soldiers , dozing on a stone ...
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