Revelations of Spain in 1845, by an English resident [T.M. Hughes]. |
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Page 62 - OUSzaga again placed himself before me, and fastened the bolt of that door. He caught hold of my dress, and obliged me to sit down. He seized my hand and forced me to sign. After this he left, and I retired to my apartment.
Page 326 - ... a hide-all and slut-cover, like the begrimed blanket of a Mexican lepero. Clumsy gaiters, ill-buttoned and discoloured, descend over shoes which, in one case out of three, are broken in pieces, disclosing to view the naked toes of the men — such in Spain are the glories of the vida militar ! The rations consist almost entirely of beans, lard-sprinkled, and boiled in a huge puchero, with bread of the coarsest description. Upon food like this they are
Page 276 - Portuguese frontier and nearly 300 of Pyrenean ; and with a fleet crumbled into ruins, and no longer of the slightest efficacy, she has 400 miles of Cantabrian and 700 of Mediterranean coast. Four hundred thousand smugglers are constantly engaged in demolishing her absurd fiscal laws, and some 1,600,000 pounds weight of cotton...
Page 12 - Jamás tal creí de Rocinante, que le tenía por persona casta y tan pacífica como yo. En fin, bien dicen que es menester mucho tiempo para venir a conocer las personas, y que no hay cosa segura en esta vida.
Page 107 - Queen Isabel has an extraordinary collection of sweets, the most perfect museum of confectionery in Europe. Her royal repository is perpetually vanishing, but not less frequently renewed ; and her conservators stuff something much better than beasts or birds — their Sovereign mistress. This pastrycook museum, which extends over every apartment of the palace, contains some most interesting specimens — the tortas, or tarts of Moron, the most celebrated in Spain — the panes pintados, or painted...
Page 221 - Spain of lanes and alleys ; there with a loose faja or red sash swathed round his waist, with leggings thrown wide open and displaying those muscular calves, with a short and tight-fitting jacket exhibiting to full advantage his amazing [breadth of shoulder and depth of chest, is the Mars and Massaniello of the party, prepared to take the lead of a popular army : and around and in the midst of every circle is the due proportion of Madrid Manolas, the viragos of metropolitan low life, discussing more...
Page 80 - No !' There is either a charge or there is none. If there be, that word is a testimony like any other, and to that testimony I oppose mine...
Page 326 - Her screams were terrible, and speedily roused both the parroco and several of his flock, who, not without hesitation and trembling, repaired in some numbers to the scene of what they deemed these supernatural horrors. The scandal may be imagined. The appearance of the Spanish troops is to the last degree unsoldierly. The sentry strolls to and fro like a corkscrew on his beat ; his shako almost falling off the back of his head, his gun slouched on his shoulder, singing outright (not merely humming)...
Page 221 - Here is a fellow in rags who wears his tattered cloak with the dignity of a grandee, for every Castilian deems himself noble ; there is a more youthful picaro with a hat more highly peaked than ordinary, and an inordinate supply of tags adorning its velvet round — that is the energetic youth of the assembly — the Gonzalez Bravo of the pave — the Young Spain of lanes and alleys ; there with a loose faja or red sash swathed round his waist, with leggings thrown wide open and displaying those...
Page 15 - Tt was not the tremendous crash of an instant after a well-fought field — the doom of a Roderick, a Richard, a Napoleon, but the little and bit-by-bit descent, after no fighting at all, from Madrid to Ciudad Real, from Ciudad Real to Albacete [here there was a pause in the scale], from Albacete to Cordova, from Cordova to Seville, from Seville to Port St. Mary's, and thence to the wide ocean. In this...