Category: Historical Novels
Let me intreat the reader not to be alarmed at the hacknied word, which generally augurs that a person is going to be very egotistical and prosy. This, at least, it will be my ambition to avoid. Nor is it my intention to assume its literary prerogatives in any way as a mask fo...
Every hope was now extinct--the fatal morning arrived. Theodora, the hapless Theodora, against whom fate seemed to have exhausted all her malice, after a night of restless grief...
7. CHAPTER VI.Don Lope Gomez Arias was a man whose will had seldom been checked, and he placed the most unbounded confidence in the magnitude of his resources, physical and intellectual. Natu...
36. CHAPTER VII.Bermudo, the renegade, having received instructions from El Feri soon after the affair of the Sierra Bermeja, returned to Alhaurin, where he found Cañeri in an extacy of uncontr...
21. CHAPTER VI.Così gl'interi giorni in lungo incerto Sonno gemo! ma poi quando la bruna Notte gli astri nel ciel chiama e la luna E il freddo aer di mute ombre è coverto; Dove selvoso è il pi...
26. CHAPTER XI.Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; It is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off. It is a rebel Both to the soul and reason, and enforces All laws, a...
25. CHAPTER X.Oh, Woman! lovely devoted Woman! Of what mysterious particles could nature have formed so strange a being--made up, as it were, of contradictions, and yet deriving from that ver...
4. CHAPTER III.Cada uno dellos mientes tiene al so, Abrazan los escudos delant los corazones: Abaxan las lauzas abueltas con los pendones; Enclinaban las caras sobre los arzones: Batien los ca...
10. CHAPTER IX.Ye fair! Be greatly cautious of your sliding hearts! Dare not the infectious sigh; nor in the bower Where woodbines flaunt, and roses shed a couch, While evening draws her crims...
38. CHAPTER IX.Granada, lately the seat of mourning, was again converted into a scene of indiscriminate joy. The recent victory obtained by Gomez Arias, and the defeat of Cañeri which had so c...
14. CHAPTER XIII.It was a rich and splendid summer evening. The sun was slowly sinking behind the giant mountains of the Alpujarras, whose dark fantastic shadows were gradually lengthening along...
24. CHAPTER IX.The night was far advanced, and the numerous guests whom the hospitality of Don Alonso had summoned together, began to retire from the joyous scene of revelry and feasting. The...
15. CHAPTER XIV.Honor! thou dazzling and wayward deity, how boundless is thy dominion! How widely different the nature and pretensions of thy worshippers! All do thee homage; all gladly and pro...
17. CHAPTER II.Mais puisque je naquis, sans doute il falloit nâitre; Si l'on m'eut consulté, j'aurais refusé l'être. Vains regrets! Le destin me condamnoit au jour, Et je viens, o soleil! te m...
34. CHAPTER V.The shadows of evening were falling round when Alonso de Aguilar and his gallant army arrived at the plain that skirts the mountain of the Sierra Bermeja. The rebels, with El Fe...
11. CHAPTER X.The next day arrived--a day of sorrow for the unfortunate Monteblanco. Seated on a ponderous chair of rude workmanship, the old _caballero_ waited for the appearance of his darl...
16. CHAPTER I.Though I had the form I had no sympathy with breathing flesh; Nor, 'midst the creatures of clay that girded me, Was there but one, who----but of her anon. I said with men, and w...
20. CHAPTER V.Granada now presented a scene of animated confusion. The repeated successes of the Christians against the rebels, and the intelligence lately received of the defeat of El Feri d...
18. CHAPTER III.Meantime the unfortunate Theodora had spent the day in a continual succession of sorrows. She had been conducted to another apartment, somewhat in better order, where she had be...
32. CHAPTER III."_Valga me el cielo!_" exclaimed Roque, "Oh Maria, oh Rufa! Oh Rufa, oh Maria! nearly a week have I been with you, and yet I cannot, for the soul of me, believe what I see. Ther...
29. CHAPTER XIV."Thy heart," replied Gomez Arias, "is a most impertinent monitor. Simple man! what other course is left me to pursue?--Is it thy wish that I should relinquish the most glorious...
28. CHAPTER XIII.At a short distance from Granada there is a place called _El cerro de los Martires_,[42] which traditionary lore had invested with most appalling histories. This place abounded...
39. CHAPTER X.The fatal day of the trial arrived; the evidence was heard, the facts fully substantiated. Gomez Arias convicted of treason and condemned to lose his head on a scaffold! This se...
37. CHAPTER VIII.Don Manuel de Monteblanco has already been described as a man weighed down by years and the iron pressure of infirmities and sorrows. The disappearance of his daughter, in whom...
30. CHAPTER I.Nul ne sut mieux que lui le grand art de séduire; Nul sur ses passions n'eut jamais plus d'empire, Et ne sut mieux cacher, sous des dehors trompeurs, Des plus vastes desseins le...
33. CHAPTER IV.The air of dignity and importance which Cañeri had resumed with his change of fortune, was displayed to an extent that might render him extravagantly ridiculous in the judgment...
19. CHAPTER IV.Les cris que les rochers renvoyaient plus affreux, Enfin toute l'horreur d'un combat ténèbreux; Que pouvait la valeur en ce trouble funeste? Les uns sont morts, la fuite a sauvé...
23. CHAPTER VIII.We think it almost time to retrace our steps, and revert to a character which played a conspicuous part at the beginning of this history. The reader, if not particularly deficie...
22. CHAPTER VII.Roque made a precipitate retreat from the garden; for, anxious as the poor fellow was to render any service to Theodora, he still felt no inclination to incur thereby the disple...
13. CHAPTER XII.We must now recall the reader's attention to that portion of the history of the rebellious Moors, which is in some measure connected with our tale. The forty chiefs, who had bee...
35. CHAPTER VI.The victory of the Moors was complete; and as they had been long accustomed to reverses, so unusual a success elated them beyond all bounds of moderation. They considered their...
3. CHAPTER II.Alarming accounts of the resolution taken by the insurgents being communicated to the queen, she lost no time in adopting measures for the preservation of her power. She summone...
6. CHAPTER V."What is to be the wonder now?" asked Gomez Arias, as he observed his valet and confidant, Roque, approaching, with an unusual expression of gravity upon his countenance, such i...
8. CHAPTER VII."_Better be born fortunate than rich_," says an old proverb, and the correctness of this saying was fully exemplified in the life of Don Rodrigo de Cespedes. Indeed, his whole e...
31. CHAPTER II.The battle is their pastime; they go forth Gay in the morn as to the summer's sport: When evening comes, the glory of the morn, The youthful warrior, is a clod of clay.
5. CHAPTER IV.The following morning shone equally bright as the preceding, and the expectations of the public were equally sanguine. The same pomp and ceremony presided in the court; the same...
12. CHAPTER XI.Whilst the unhappy father was absorbed in his recent misfortune, and endeavouring to beguile the tedious hours, by directing researches in all quarters of the town, where there...
27. CHAPTER XII.After the defeat of his companions at Alhacen, and the total annihilation of their hopes and resources in that quarter, Bermudo the renegade had prudently fled to Granada. He kn...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The first rosy tints of morning at length began to appear, and the heavy clouds of night were gradually rolling away before the splendour of the approaching sun, when Don Manuel...
2. CHAPTER I.The ancient city of Granada has ever proved a source of gratification to those who have occupied themselves with the investigation of its earlier history. It abounds with object...
1. CHAPTER I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI.Let me intreat the reader not to be alarmed at the hacknied word, which generally augurs that a person is going to be very egotistical and prosy. This, at least, it will be my a...