The Alhambra . ugh the faint sound of music and merri-ment now and then rose from the gardens of the Darro, it but H 2 lOO THE ALII AM 15 RA rendered more impressive the monumental silence of the pilewhich overshadowed me. It was one of those hours and scenesin which memory asserts an almost magical power : and, likethe evening sun beaming on these mouldering towers, sendsback her retrospective rays to light up the glories of thepast. As I sat watching the effect of the declining daylight upon this Moorish pile^ I was led->^---^^-^-~^ ^. ^•?. 4^ into a consideration of the light, elegant, a
The Alhambra . ugh the faint sound of music and merri-ment now and then rose from the gardens of the Darro, it but H 2 lOO THE ALII AM 15 RA rendered more impressive the monumental silence of the pilewhich overshadowed me. It was one of those hours and scenesin which memory asserts an almost magical power : and, likethe evening sun beaming on these mouldering towers, sendsback her retrospective rays to light up the glories of thepast. As I sat watching the effect of the declining daylight upon this Moorish pile^ I was led->^---^^-^-~^ ^. ^•?. 4^ into a consideration of the light, elegant, and volup-tuous character prevalentthroughout its internal ar-chitecture, and to contrastit with the grand but gloomysolemnity of the Gothicedifices reared by theSpanish conquerors. Thevery architecture thus be-speaks the opposite andirreconcilable natures of thetwo warlike people who solong battled here for themastery of the degrees I fell into acourse of musing upon thesingular fortunes of the. ^?-?>;>.a -A•\igi f,H Mountains of Alhai7ibra. Arabian or Morisco-Spaniards, whose whole existence is as atale that is told, and certainly forms one of the most anomalousyet splendid episodes in history. Potent and durable as wastheir dominion, we scarcely know how to call them. Theywere a nation without a legitimate country or name. A remotewave of the great Arabian inundation, cast upon the shores ofEurope, they seem to have all the impetus of the first rush ofthe torrent. Their career of conquest, from the rock of Gibraltarto the cliffs of the Pyrenees, was as rapid and brilliant as the
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