Toledo: The Story of an Old Spanish CapitalJ.M. Dent & Company, 1898 - 311 pàgines |
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Pàgina 138 - The steel used by the espuderos of Toledo came from the iron mines of Mondragon in the Basque provinces. Palomario explains its peculiar excellence by the virtues of the sand and water of the Tagus. When the metal was red-hot, it was covered with sand, and, the blade then formed, it was placed in a hollow of sixty centimetres, and red-hot, was plunged into a wooden tank full of Tagus water — The decline of Toledan steel is traced to the introduction of French costume ; and though attempts have...
Pàgina 93 - España y del siglo presente; oh ínclito sabio, autor muy sciente, otra, y aun otra vegada te lloro, porque Castilla perdió tal tesoro no conocido delante la gente. Perdió los tus libros sin ser conocidos, y como en exequias te fueron ya luego unos metidos al ávido fuego, y otros sin orden no bien repartidos...
Pàgina 54 - It must not be supposed that the Moors, like the barbarian hordes who preceded them, brought desolation and tyranny in their wake. On the contrary, never was Andalusia so mildly, justly, and wisely governed as by her Arab conquerors.
Pàgina 192 - Nobles, discretos varones Que gobernáis a Toledo, En aquestos escalones Desechad las aficiones, Codicias, amor y miedo. Por los comunes provechos Dejad los particulares: Pues vos fizo Dios pilares De tan riquísimos techos, Estad firmes y derechos.
Pàgina 140 - Burgundy, and the splendors of chapels and treasury. And should time be short for detailed inspection, it is this general effect of immense naves, of a forest of columns and of jewelled windows that we carry away, feeling too small amidst such greatness of form and incomparable loveliness of lights for the mere expression of admiration. At sunset, should you have the fortune to be alone among its pillars and stained glass windows, you will find nothing on earth to compare with the mysterious eloquence...
Pàgina 54 - Spaniards, but this does not explain the problem ; for these same counsellors were unable to produce similar results elsewhere, and all the administrative talent of Spain had not sufficed to make the Gothic domination tolerable to its subjects. Under the Moors, on the other hand, the people were on the whole contented — as contented as any people can be whose rulers are of a separate race and creed, — and far better pleased than they had been when their sovereigns belonged to the same religion...
Pàgina 138 - Toledan steel was renowned in France and England, as well as in Italy. On his way to captivity in Madrid, Francis of France cried, seeing beardless boys with swords at their sides, " Oh ! most happy Spain, that brings forth and brings up men already armed.
Pàgina 129 - ... city. The Alcazar is the only important building seen in entering on this side ; but from the other side of the city where the bridge of San Martin crosses the Tagus, the cathedral is a feature in the view, though it never seems to be so prominent as might be expected with a church of its grand scale. From both these points of view, indeed, it must be remembered that the effect is not produced by the beauty or grandeur of any one building ; it is the desolate sublimity of the dark rocks that...
Pàgina 129 - Spain, p. 783. defile, meanders across a fertile vega, and long lines of trees, with here a ruined castle, and there the apse of the curious church of the Cristo de la Vega, and there again the famous factory of arms, give colour and incident to a view which would anywhere be thought beautiful, but is doubly grateful by comparison with the sad dignity of the forlorn old city.