 ... cypresses which at this day fling their broad shadows over the land. In the distance beyond the blue waters of the lake, and nearly screened by intervening foliage, was seen a shining speck, the rival capital of Tezcuco, and, still further on, the...  Columbian Historical Novels - Page 152by John Roy Musick - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 pages
...rival capital of Tezcuco, and, still further on, the dark belt of porphyry, girdling the Valley around, like a rich setting which Nature had devised for the...her jewels. " Such was the beautiful vision which broke on the eyes of the Conquerors. And even now, when so sad a change has come over the scene ; when... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...rival capital Tezc.uco ; and, still further on, (he dark belt of porphyry, girdling the valley around, like a rich setting which nature had devised for the...of her jewels. Such was the beautiful vision which broke on the eyes of the conquerors ; and even now, when so sad a change has come over the scene ;... | |
 | Brantz Mayer - 1852 - 478 pages
...capital of Tezcoco ; and, still further on, the dark belt of porphyry, girdling the valley around, like a rich setting which Nature had devised for the fairest of her jewels." Cortez easily descended with his troops by the mountain road towards the plain of the valley; and as... | |
 | Brantz Mayer - 1852 - 492 pages
...rival capital of Tezcoco; and, still further on, the dark belt of porphyry, girdling the valley around, like a rich setting which Nature had devised for the fairest of her jewels." Cortez easily descended with his troops by the mountain road towards the plain of the valley; and as... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 pages
...rival capital of Tezcuco ; and still further on, the dark belt of porphyry, girdling the valley around, like a rich setting which nature had devised for the...of her jewels. Such was the beautiful vision which broke on the eyes of the conquerors. cf. t rrnptao -suru » an I*4-/T«R£L . IL OL Itter liOTUSlfr... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...Tezcuco, and, still further on, the dark belt of porphyry, girdling the Valley around like a rich selling which Nature had devised for the fairest of her jewels. Such was the beautiful vision which broke on the eyes of the Conquerors. And even now, when so sad a change has come over the scene ; when... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...rival capital of Tezcuco, and, still farther on, the dark belt of porphyry, girdling the Valley around like a rich setting which nature had devised for the fairest of her jewels. • and the soil, unsheltered from the fierce radiance of a tropical sun, is in many places abandoned... | |
 | William Dalton - 1862 - 556 pages
...rival capital of Tezcuco, and, still farther on, the dark belt of porphyry girdling the valley around, like a rich setting which nature had devised for the fairest of her jewels." The first feeling among these toil-worn, weatherbeaten veterans, was intense admiration and delight... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...rival capital of Tezcuco, and, still further on, the dark belt of porphyry, girdling the valley around, like a rich setting which nature had devised for the...of her jewels. Such was the beautiful vision which broke on the eyes of the Conquerors. And even now, when so sad a change has come over the scene, when... | |
 | Henry Champion Deming - 1868 - 562 pages
...farther on the dark belt of porphyry, girding the valley around like a rich setting which Nature has devised for the fairest of her jewels. " Such was the beautiful vision which broke upon the eyes of the Spaniards. And even now, when so sad a change has come over the scene ;... | |
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