 | Washington Irving - 1832 - 356 pages
...Moors had fallen to ruin, and disappeared. This spell, the tradition went on to say, woidd last until the hand on the outer arch should reach down and grasp...the whole pile would tumble to pieces, and all the trea• sures buried beneath it by the Moors would be revealed. Notwithstanding this ominous prediction,... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1838 - 702 pages
...it was a great magician, and had laid the whole fortress under a spell. This spell would last until the hand on the outer arch should reach down and grasp...treasures buried beneath it by the Moors would be revealed. After passing the barbican, we ascended a lane, winding between walls, and came upon an open... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1840 - 370 pages
...Moors had fallen to ruin, and disappeared. This spell, the tradition went on to say, would last until the hand on the outer arch should reach down and grasp...treasures buried beneath it by the Moors would be revealed. Notwithstanding this ominous prediction, we ventured to pass through the spell-bound gateway,... | |
 | Margaret Miller Davidson - American poetry - 1843 - 716 pages
...hey were mag innl duvices, upon which the fate of the A 1 ham bra depended. — The Moorish king who built it was a great magician, and, as some believe,...would tumble to pieces, and all the treasures buried *li it by the Moors would be revealed. — Irving. NOTE II. " Why mourn as a maid, who in sorrow will... | |
 | Margaret Miller Davidson - 1843 - 252 pages
...»rch sboutd reach down and grasp the key. when the whole pile would tumlile to pieces, and all tbe treasures buried beneath it by the Moors would be...revealed.—Irving. NOTE II. " Why mourn as a maid, who in Borrow will bend." It was here, too, his affliction was embittered by the reproaches of his mother... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...Moors has fallen to decay and disappeared. Tradition went on to say that this spell would last until the hand on the outer arch should reach down and grasp the key, when the whole pile would fall together, and all the treasures buried beneath it by the Moors would be revealed. With this impression... | |
 | 1847 - 486 pages
...Moon had fallen to ruin and disappeared. This spell, the tradition went on to say, would lait until the hand on the outer arch should reach down and grasp the key, when the whole pita would tumble to pieces." — IRVING'B TALES OF THE ALUAMBBA. Within the loftiest mountain, Of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 442 pages
...Moors had fallen to ruin, and disappeared. This spell, the tradition went on to say, would last until the hand on the outer arch should reach down and grasp...treasures buried beneath it by the Moors would be revealed. Notwithstanding this ominous prediction, we ventured to pass through the spell-bound gateway,... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...Moors had fallen to ruin and disappeared. This spell, the tradition went on to say, would last until the hand on the outer arch should reach down and grasp...treasures buried beneath it by the Moors would be revealed. Notwithstanding this ominous prediction, we ventured to pass through the spell-bound gateway,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 450 pages
...Moors had fallen to ruins, and disappeared. This spell, the tradition went on to say, would last until the hand on the outer arch should reach down and grasp...treasures buried beneath it by the Moors would be revealed. Notwithstanding this ominous prediction, we ventured to pass through the spell-bound gateway,... | |
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By this means it had remained standing for several hundred years, in defiance of storms and earthquakes, while almost all other buildings of the Moors had fallen to ruin and disappeared. This spell, the tradition went on to say, would last until the hand... 
