The Alhambra . wm^ -^ytm-^sm. .5^5?« The Convent. Light after light gradually twinkles forth ; here a taper from abalconied Avindow : there a votive lamp before the image of asaint. Thus, by degrees, the city emerges from the pervadinggloom, and sparkles with scattered lights, like the starry firma-ment. Xow break forth from court and garden, and streetand lane, the tinkling of innumerable guitars, and the click-ing of castanets ; blending, at this lofty height, in a faint but THE BALCONY H- general concert. Enjoy the moment is the creed of the gayand amorous Andalusian, and at no time does he
The Alhambra . wm^ -^ytm-^sm. .5^5?« The Convent. Light after light gradually twinkles forth ; here a taper from abalconied Avindow : there a votive lamp before the image of asaint. Thus, by degrees, the city emerges from the pervadinggloom, and sparkles with scattered lights, like the starry firma-ment. Xow break forth from court and garden, and streetand lane, the tinkling of innumerable guitars, and the click-ing of castanets ; blending, at this lofty height, in a faint but THE BALCONY H- general concert. Enjoy the moment is the creed of the gayand amorous Andalusian, and at no time does he practise itmore zealously than on the balmy nights of summer, wooinghis mistress with the dance, the love-ditty, and the passionateserenade. I Avas one evening seated in the balcony, enjoying the lightbreeze that came rustling along the side of the hill, among thetree-tops, when my humble historiographer Mateo, who was atmy elbow, pointed out a spacious house, in an obscure streetof the Albaycin, about which he related, as
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