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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
,—which has confounded the inquiries of the learned as to the origin of the style called Gothic,—and the minute delicacy and graceful lightness of its ornaments, combined with the grand effect produced by the whole imposing mass of the edifice, whose thousand columns make you feel as if you were in the labyrinths of a forest, altogether render it not only the first thing of its kind in the world, but one of the most curious of all the monuments of the wealth and power of man. . . . . Until 1528 it remained precisely as when the Moors left it; and even now the only considerable alteration is the construction of a chapel in the centre, which, however, is so hidden by the columns, that, from many parts of the church, it cannot even be seen. . . . . You enter by the court and portico, where the faithful, like Moses, put off their shoes because it was holy ground. The very fountains still flow there which flowed for their ablutions; and the orange-trees, the cypresses, and the palms
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
ienced Miruelo was engaged as his pilot. In the spring of 1528. 1528, he doubled Cape San Antonio, and was stand- April. 1528, he doubled Cape San Antonio, and was stand- April. Cabeza de Vaca. published by Geo. W Riggs, Jr. ing in for Havana, when a strong South wind drove his fleet upon the Americand, which, if their gestures were rightly inter- Chap. II.} 1528. May. preted, came from the North. Disregarding, thereforerrible by immense trunks of fallen trees, that Chap. II.} 1528. June. were decaying in the water, and sheltered the few bparty whom famine, autumnal fevers, fatigue and Chap. II.} 1528. Sept. the arrows of the savage bowmen had spared, embarked bottom. In the night following a second day's Chap. II.} 1528. Nov. fruitless struggle to go up the stream, the boats wer blackamoor from Barbary, bore up against every Chap. II.} 1528. ill, and though scattered among various tribes, took thoug of the Spanish navigator preserved, who, between the years 1528 and 1540, discovered the Chesapeake, and made it known as t
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