A Handbook for Travellers in Spain: Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia; the portions best suited for the invalidJ. Murray, 1855 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 290 - ... the Arabs, in changing their wandering for a settled life, in striking the tent to plant it in a form more solid, had transferred the luxurious shawls and hangings of Cashmere, which had adorned their former dwellings, to their new ; changing the tent-pole for a marble column, and the silken tissue for gilded plaster.
Página 25 - Dentifrice. A White Powder, compounded of the rarest and most fragrant exotics. It bestows on the teeth a Pearl-like Whiteness, frees them from Tartar, and imparts to the gums a healthy...
Página 15 - Burgundy wine growers for supplies of their best wines, qualities of the first vintages may be had at this hotel at moderate prices. Since the Hotel has been in the hands of new proprietors instead of a company, the reduction they have made in the prices precludes them from paying fees to the cab and coach drivers at the Railway Station.
Página 216 - You have built here what any one might have built anywhere else, but you have destroyed what was unique in the world.
Página 25 - ... and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the Skin. Freckles, Tan, Spots, Pimples, Flushes, and Decolorations Fly before its application, and give place to delicate clearness, with the glow of beauty and of bloom.
Página 388 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 91 - ... becerritos (little calves), vacas (cows), which is no compliment to a bull ; and, however unskilled in bucolics, all Spaniards are capital judges of bulls in the ring. Such animals as show...
Página 9 - Weekly Gossip. Miscellanea, including all that is likely to interest the informed and intelligent. THE ATHEN^UM is so conducted that the reader, however far distant, is, in respect to Literature, Science, and the Arts, on an equality in point of information with the best-informed circles of the Metropolis.
Página 291 - Look attentively at my elegance, thou wilt reap the benefit of a commentary on decoration.
Página 144 - ... vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory. He has left us, not indeed his mantle of inspiration, but a name and an example, which are at this hour inspiring thousands of the youth of England: a name which is our pride, and an example which will continue to be our shield and our strength.