. En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe . ground, guarded by armies of the truefaith, held there by magic till the enchantments bedissolved, when a Moorish king shall reign in thepalace of his ancestors and the children of the Pro-phet be restored to their own. The longer one staysamidst the marble palaces, rests beneath the palmsof the fountained courts, or gazes from the beautifulterrace of the Generalife at the pure snows of theSierra Nevada, the longer one is tempted to remain,and one loses count of the days that all too quick
. En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe . ground, guarded by armies of the truefaith, held there by magic till the enchantments bedissolved, when a Moorish king shall reign in thepalace of his ancestors and the children of the Pro-phet be restored to their own. The longer one staysamidst the marble palaces, rests beneath the palmsof the fountained courts, or gazes from the beautifulterrace of the Generalife at the pure snows of theSierra Nevada, the longer one is tempted to remain,and one loses count of the days that all too quicklypass. Of the Alhambra Palace I will not speak—itsglories are too sacred to be torn from their solitudeby my rough hand and described here. It is soapart from the world, so full of romance, so in-describably beautiful, that palace of a dead the description written by Henry Swinburnea hundred and fifty years ago, or the enchanting worksof Washington Irving, one may gather some ideaof their charm; but neither writings nor picturescan ever bring to the mind a true conception of the218.
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