Letters: Descriptive of Public Monuments, Scenery & Manners in France & Spain, Band 2Allen, 1832 |
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Letters: Descriptive of Public Monuments, Scenery & Manners in ..., Band 2 Caroline Elizabeth Wilde Cushing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 125 - ... others, were busy in keeping up some little bonfires of paper, which served for the time to illuminate the scene ; others were beating the drums, and playing on the instruments used by the Arabs on festive occasions. Presently two of them, Moslems, I think, commenced a sort of sword fight or dance. Each held in one hand a naked sword, and in the other a thick huge shield of about a foot in diameter, with which to ward off the blows of his companion. They kept time with the music, and it was interesting...
Seite 127 - ... the bull taken advantage of his position, the life of the caballero must have been instantly sacrificed. But the chulos drew him away to his second antagonist, who met him rather more successfully, and broke off the spear in his neck, but without wounding him mortally. This was reserved for the first combatant, who, having recovered himself from his fall, and being armed with a second spear, rode manfully forward into the centre of the arena, and attacking the .bull without hesitation, buried...
Seite 130 - ... of the kind. A few days afterwards, (December 17th), a second royal bull fight was given, which I again had the courage to attend. But it was only to bring away with me very different and less pleasing impressions of the thing than I had received from witnessing the first, which was, in...
Seite 124 - It seemed impossible 12 to me, at first, that they could escape him; but finding, upon observation, that they calculated their distance with unerring certainty, I began to feel a little more at ease than my fears would allow at the outset. Two more horses being now brought upon the field, the battle between the bull and...
Seite 127 - Spanish costume, consisting of a btack velvet hat and; white plumes ; a complete suit .of rich yellow silk, slashed at the knees with blue; and a blue silk Spanish cloak, fastened at the throat, and flowing gracefully over the left shoulder, leaving the right arm perfectly free. Each carried in his hand a long spear, made of very light, brittle wood, and barbed at the point. His- object is to break off the head of the spear in the neck of the bull ; and if it be skillfully done, one single blow,...
Seite 115 - ... luxurious wants of the sovereign; and while he is surrounded with all that wealth and power can furnish him, his miserable people are too often reduced to the terrible alternative of expiring with famine, or of seeking a subsistence, purchased at the price of crime, and of never-ending dishonor. ... In our fortunate country, where so many paths to an easy competency are always open to the active and industrious, no man need starve, except by choice. But in Spain it is entirely the reverse.
Seite 129 - You may perhaps be surprised, after perusing the foregoing account, that a lady could experience any thing but disgust in witnessing a species of amusement so barbarous and unnatural. Such was my own opinion respecting it after reading similar accounts ; but strange as it may appear, there was a fascination about the whole...
Seite 124 - ... which fluttered from his neck, a symbol, as it were, of the sanguinary death which awaited him. The first object, upon which he fixed his gaze, "Was the picador, towards whom he rushed with all the fury of madness. The picador received him...
Seite 124 - When the picadorcs had fought to the satisfaction of the King, he gave a signal for the banderilleros to appear. These men are dressed precisely like the chulos, being in fact a part of their number. They are each armed with two darts, called banderillos, barbed at the point, and ornamented with a variety of colored paper, cut into streamers.
Seite 117 - Could such a thing take place in America, how different would be the result? How many hundreds of persons we should see extended upon the earth...