Journeys through bookland; a new and original plan for reading (1912)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve company · leaf 54
m had passed into the handsof the Christians, the castle was occasionallyinhabited by the Castilian monarchs. Earlyin the eighteenth century, however, it wasabandoned as a court residence, its beautifulwalls became desolate, and some of them fellto ruin, the gardens were destroyed, and thefountains… … from which we draw a description of the Al-hambra. Irving is writing of his first visit. now found ourselves in adeep, narrow ravine, filledwith beautiful groves, with asteep avenue and various foot-paths winding through it, bor-dered with stone seats andornamented with fountains.To our left, we…
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