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 432
CAPITALS IN THE COURT OF THE LIONS, WITH A MEASURE OF ONE METRE. (241) The Alhanibra. 243 Although the upper parts of the walls are only coated withplaster, strengthened with reeds, centuries of neglect have notsufficed to destroy this slight, aerie, faerie thing of filigree,which has not even the… … NORTH GALLERY IN THE COURT OF THE LIONS. haunting martlet, guest of summer, builds his nest and careersin the delicate air, breaking, with his twitter, the silence ofthese sunny, now deserted courts, once made for Orientaldelights, and even now the place in which to read the ArabianNights, or spend…
