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Side 337
... Maria Padilla for a mistress , Henry of Trastamare for a rival , and Edward the Black Prince for an ally and com- panion in arms , must be worthy the researches even of so elegant a scholar and learned an antiquarian as Prosper Mérimée ...
... Maria Padilla for a mistress , Henry of Trastamare for a rival , and Edward the Black Prince for an ally and com- panion in arms , must be worthy the researches even of so elegant a scholar and learned an antiquarian as Prosper Mérimée ...
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... Maria de Padilla , a young girl of noble birth , brought up in the house of his wife , Doña Isabel de Meneses . She was an orphan , issue of a noble family , formerly attached to the Lara faction , and ruined by the Her brother and ...
... Maria de Padilla , a young girl of noble birth , brought up in the house of his wife , Doña Isabel de Meneses . She was an orphan , issue of a noble family , formerly attached to the Lara faction , and ruined by the Her brother and ...
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As rias . Doña Maria de Padilla was small in stature , like the majority of Spanish women , pretty , lively , full of that volup- tuous grace peculiar to the women of Southern Spain , and which our language has no word exactly to ...
As rias . Doña Maria de Padilla was small in stature , like the majority of Spanish women , pretty , lively , full of that volup- tuous grace peculiar to the women of Southern Spain , and which our language has no word exactly to ...
Side 345
The enchantment of Don Pedro by Maria Padilla is a popular tradition in Andalusia , where the memory of both is vividly preserved . It is further added , that Maria Padilla was a queen of the gipsies - their bari crallisa ...
The enchantment of Don Pedro by Maria Padilla is a popular tradition in Andalusia , where the memory of both is vividly preserved . It is further added , that Maria Padilla was a queen of the gipsies - their bari crallisa ...
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... Maria Padilla instigated her assassination . That favourite was kind - hearted and merciful , and on more than one occasion we find her interceding with the king for the lives of his enemies and prisoners , and weeping when her ...
... Maria Padilla instigated her assassination . That favourite was kind - hearted and merciful , and on more than one occasion we find her interceding with the king for the lives of his enemies and prisoners , and weeping when her ...
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Side 382 - That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:" and Mr Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers.
Side 81 - He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
Side 201 - And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Side 385 - ... were joking ; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in history or fiction...
Side 25 - And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite : let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity : slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women : but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary.
Side 385 - Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Side 385 - When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them.
Side 385 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left to the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow.
Side 198 - And did not he make one ? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one ? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Side 5 - All around us the world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Governments which lately seemed likely to stand during ages have been on a sudden shaken and overthrown. The proudest capitals of Western Europe have streamed with civil blood.