"Espana" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Spain, in this guise: "Charity, Sir Cavalier, for the love of God bestow an alms upon me, that I may purchase a mouthful of red wine!" In a moment I was on Spanish ground, and, having flung the beggar a small piece of silver, I cried in ecstasy: "Santiago y cierra Espana!" and scoured on my way with ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various
... The compilation containing these poems is entitled: "Hystoria y relacio verdadera de la enfermedad felicissimo transito y sumptuosas exequias funebres de la Serenissima Reyna de Espana Isabel de Valoys nuestra Senora", Madrid, 1569. The opening lines ...
— Shakespeare and Precious Stones • George Frederick Kunz
... which for years has been enacted in this city of Manila has had some variation this year, from the time when the galleon "Santo Cristo de Burgos" set sail for Nueva Espana up to the present month of July, in which the galleon called "Nuestra Senora del Rosario, San Francisco Javier y Santa Rosa" has been fitted up for the said navigation. By it is [sent] this written relation, which will contain ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin
... the voyages of the West Indies; an easier way to invade the best parts thereof than by the common course. The king of Spain is not so impoverished by taking three or four port towns in America as we suppose; neither are the riches of Peru or Nueva Espana so left by the sea side as it can be easily washed away with a great flood, or spring tide, or left dry upon the sands on a low ebb. The port towns are few and poor in respect of the rest within the land, and ...
— The Discovery of Guiana • Sir Walter Raleigh
... version of Sahagun's Historia de la Nueva Espana, at Madrid. In the Compte Rendu of the Congres ...
— A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages • Daniel G. Brinton |
