 | Robert Southey - 1806 - 276 pages
...far and wide Its waters, dark beneath the light of noon. There Aztlan stood upon the farther shore ; Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their...turrets set around, And battlements all burnished white, that shone Like silver in the sun-shine. I beheld •„ The imperial city, her far-circling walls,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1812 - 588 pages
...far and wide Its waters, dark beneath the light of noon. There Aztlan stood upon the farther shore ; Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their...roofs with turrets set around, And battlements all burnish'd whiie, which shon% Like silver in the sun-shine. I beheld The imperial city, her far-circliiig... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1815 - 330 pages
...far and wide Its waters, dark beneath the light of noon. There Aztlan stood upon the farther shore ; Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their...burnished white, which shone Like silver in the sun-shine. I beheld The imperial city, her far-circling walls, Her garden groves and stately palaces, Her temples... | |
 | Robert Southey - English literature - 1829 - 806 pages
...far and wide In waters, dark beneath the light of noon. There Aztlan stood upon the farther shore, Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their...turrets set around, And battlements all burnished while, which shone Like silver in the sunshine. 37 I beheld Fbe imperial city, her far-circling walls,... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1838 - 520 pages
...far and wide Its waters, dark beneath the light of noon. There Aztlan stood upon the farther shore : Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their...roofs with turrets set around, And battlements all burnish'd white, which shone Like silver in the sunshine. I beheld The imperial city, her far-circling... | |
 | Christianity - 1844 - 1424 pages
...distant, and looked across the blue waters of the lake, " Where Azthan stood upon the further shore;' Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their...burnished white, which shone Like silver in the sunshine ; I beheld The imperial city, her far circling walls, Her garden, groves, and stately palaces, Her... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Mexico - 1844 - 326 pages
...prepared to make his entry on the following morning.81 II " There Aztlan stood upon the farther shorn. : Amid the shade of trees Its dwellings rose, Their level roofs with turrets set around, And hattlements all burnished white, which shoue Like silver In the sunshine. I beheld The imperial city,... | |
 | 1844 - 772 pages
...Azthan stood upon the further shore; Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their level roofa with turrets set around, And battlements all burnished white, which shone Like silver in the sunshine; I beheld The imperial city, her far circling walls, Her garden, groves, and stately palaces, Her temples... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1850 - 440 pages
...prepared to make his entry on the following morning.* » " There Aztlan stood upon the farther shore ; Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their...burnished white, which shone Like silver in the sunshine. I beheld The imperial city, her far-circling walls, Her garden groves and stately palaces, Her temples... | |
 | Luther Giddings, Officer of the First Regiment of Ohio Volunteers - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1853 - 362 pages
...glistened like polished marble, were seen in glimpses through the acacia and orange trees of the suburbs. "Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their...burnished white, which shone Like silver in the sunshine." In the rear or south side of the city, and at no great distance from it, was the Sierra Madre chain,... | |
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There Aztlan stood upon the farther shore ; Amid the shade of trees its dwellings rose, Their level roofs with turrets set around, And battlements all burnished white, which shone Like silver in the sun-shine. I beheld The imperial city, her far-circling... 
