Mexico and Her People of To-day: An Account of the Customs, Characteristics, Amusements, History and Advancement of the Mexicans, and the Development and Resources of Their CountryL. C. Page, 1907 - 492 Seiten |
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Seite 321 - The white doves filled the air, Like the white souls of the saints. 'The saints! Ah, have they grown Forgetful of their own? Are they asleep, or dead, That open to the sky Their ruined Missions lie, No longer tenanted? 'Oh, bring us back once more The vanished days of yore, When the world with faith was filled; Bring back the fervid zeal, The hearts of fire and steel, The hands that believe and build. 'Then from our tower again We will send over land and main Our voices of command, Like exiled kings...
Seite 181 - I have said, and I say it ever, As the years go on and the world goes over, 'Twere better to be content and clever In tending of cattle and tossing of clover, In the grazing of cattle and the growing of grain, Than a strong man striving for fame or gain...
Seite 216 - ... and wooden vessels highly painted. Numbers of women • sold fish, and little loaves made of a certain mud which they find in the lake, and which resembles cheese. The makers of...
Seite 12 - Steal not, nor give thyself up to gaming ; otherwise thou wilt be a disgrace to thy parents, whom thou ought rather to honour for the education they have given thee. If thou wilt be virtuous, thy example will put the wicked to shame.
Seite 132 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Seite 271 - ... there is a note of individual yielding to a whim of expression that is very fascinating. The architects escaped from the commonplace and the conventional ; they understood proportion without regularity, and the result is not, perhaps, explainable to those who are only accustomed to our church architecture.
Seite 241 - The sport permeates the national life. I have seen it woven into the tapestry of palaces, and rudely stamped on the handkerchief of the peasant. It is the favorite game of children in the street. Loyal Spain was thrilled with joy recently on reading in its Paris correspondence that when the exiled...
Seite 321 - ... and grand; When the flag of Spain unfurled Its folds o'er this western world, And the Priest was lord of the land. The chapel that once looked down On the little seaport town Has crumbled into the dust And on oaken beams below The bells swing to and fro, And are green with mould and rust. "Is then, the old faith dead...
Seite 3 - I have preferred rather to present what would appeal to the painter and idler. A land of white sunshine redolent with flowers; a land of gay costumes, crumbling churches, and old convents ; a land of kindly greetings, of extreme courtesy, of open, broad hospitality.