The Alhambra, being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula (1907)
Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 · London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company · leaf 129
; but the surpassing splendour of this chamber forbids usto accept a reason so inadequate for the designation. There isnothing so very extraordinary in two huge blocks of stone, bethey never so faultless; that is only a matter of quarrying: if 66 The AUiambra. such objects are to excite wonder, we… … HALL OF THE TWO SISTERS, FROM ENTRANCE DOOR profusion of ornament, and in the beauty of the prospect fromthe entrance through a range of apartments, where a multitudeof arches terminate in a large window affording a view of opencountry. In sunshine, the variety of tints thrown upon thisenfilade are…
