Romantic castles and palaces, as seen and described by famous writers; (1901)
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 226
r has causedmore chefs dceuvre to disappear than the scythe of Time, ifI may be allowed to use that superannuated, mythologicalexpression. In a fairly well preserved hall, you notice aseries of smoky portraits of the kings of Spain, but thesehave only a chronological value. The real charm of the… … J^ A THE NEVJ Y^ THE GENERALIFE 171 curiously bent and clipped. Orange-trees and cypresses areplanted on each border -, it was at the foot of one of thesecypresses, of a prodigious size, and which dates from thetime of the Moors, that the favourite of Boabdil, if wemay believe the legend, often…
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