Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobac̜a and BatalhaCarey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835 - 188 pages |
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Page 77 - ... full fifty feet in height, surmounted by a window of perforated marble of nearly the same lofty dimensions, deep as a cavern, and enriched with canopies and imagery in a style that would have done honour to William of Wykeham, some of whose disciples or co-disciples in the train of the founder's consort, Philippa of Lancaster, had probably designed it.
Page 110 - Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd; Joys only flow where fate is most conceal'd. Too busy man would find his sorrows more, If future fortunes he could know before ; For by that knowledge of his destiny, *He would not live at all, but always die.
Page 42 - The first sight of this regal monastery is very imposing; and the picturesque, wellwooded and well-watered village, out of the quiet bosom of which it appears to rise, relieves the mind from a sense of oppression the huge domineering bulk of the conventual buildings inspire.
Page 38 - How often, contrasting my present situation with the horrid disturbed state of almost every part of the Continent, did I bless the hour when my steps were directed to Portugal ! As I sat in the nook of my retired window, I looked with complacency on a roof which sheltered no scheming hypocrites,— on tables, on which perhaps no newspaper had ever been thrown, and on neat white pillows, guiltless of propping up the heads of those assassins of real prosperity—political adventurers.
Page 78 - There is a greater plainness in the walls, less panelling, and fewer intersections in the vaulted roof; but the utmost richness of hue, at this time of day at least, was not wanting. No tapestry, however rich — no painting, however vivid, could equal the gorgeousness of tint, the splendour of the golden and ruby light which streamed forth from...