The Heroines of history; . late, and depressing withstill deeper gloom, those who bore her beloved form toits plain tomb in the Alhambra. 136 ISABELLA OF CASTILE. To that unfathomed, boundless sea,The silent grave I Thither all earthly pomp and boastRoll, to be swallowed up and lostIn one dark wave. The people vied with, each other in extolling the tri-umphant glories of her reign, and the wisdom and pu-rity of her character—one that scarcely deserves thecharge of bigotry, since the two great errors of her ad-ministration were measures which she abhorred, andwould never have allowed to be exec
The Heroines of history; . late, and depressing withstill deeper gloom, those who bore her beloved form toits plain tomb in the Alhambra. 136 ISABELLA OF CASTILE. To that unfathomed, boundless sea,The silent grave I Thither all earthly pomp and boastRoll, to be swallowed up and lostIn one dark wave. The people vied with, each other in extolling the tri-umphant glories of her reign, and the wisdom and pu-rity of her character—one that scarcely deserves thecharge of bigotry, since the two great errors of her ad-ministration were measures which she abhorred, andwould never have allowed to be executed, had not herjudgment been overruled by those upon whom she re-lied for spiritual guidance. Uniting the noblest masculine qualities with thefinest and most lovable characteristics of woman, shesecured the love and devotion of a nation still proudof that incomparable queen, upon whom was justly be-stowed then, as now, the simple but eloquent designa-tion— Isabella de la paz y bontad—Isabella of peaceand goodness 1. Seeu :: Iff. Monarch, of Yramest--• -. _ - •- .: -.: : _*!_. ._• The maid ia come, die mission - n — _ .inn Q b :hc consecrated wCrown, tiiee, anrtiifail ong —! ~zr~ _ i fir tllis _ _. rpffnawart : _T arts, of commerce :._-. i - / is difficult to believe that so£ —asm nmg naixvsiynave elapsed, sir.: e n \ i r-r. Si Htttferewfet : kall tfeafc sHowIsc^Et and 7 _ ; very remote, wiien tne moss t.~.._ svmiiE •when, it vae : see indeed fiat any man kiwews b inacv nee .: _-_; j: in kn . «r fe ..> aadthfiattribute an unforeseen md aria . in ;~ jm -tnongn : fnlfest zsplanatian proper and legjtfmafe eanse. g - ,:.-i:. ataet . ijahtr the of t&eae maeic „_~r~ in common— .1. _t .:- _:...: 140 JOAN OF AEC. treason to the state. They believed, as they weretaught by the religion in which they placed their trust,and by its priests whom they reverenced, that everywater-fall had its nymph, every grove its dryad,—thatthere w
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