 To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction, the sovereigns had ordered their throne to be placed in public, under a rich canopy of brocade of gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen awaited his arrival, seated in state, with...  American Quarterly Review - Page 162edited by - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Readers, American - 1905 - 474 pages
...expected from roving enterprises, seemed in harmony with the grandeur and dignity of his achievement. To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction...them, and attended by the dignitaries of their court. 219 At length Columbus entered the hall, surrounded by a brilliant crowd of cavaliers, among whom,... | |
 | John Roy Musick - United States - 1908 - 556 pages
...sovereigns ordered their throne to be placed in a public place, under a rich canopy of brocade and gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen, seated in state, with Prince Juan beside them, and many dignitaries gathered about, awaited the arrival... | |
 | JOHN R. MUSICK - 1907 - 610 pages
...sovereigns ordered their throne to be placed in a public place, under a rich canopy of brocade and gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen, seated in state, with Prince Juan beside them, and many dignitaries gathered about, awaited the arrival... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - Readers - 1921 - 440 pages
...expected from roving enterprises, seemed in harmony with the grandeur and dignity of his achievement. 10 To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction,...seated in state, with the prince Juan beside them, and at1s tended by the dignitaries of their court and the principal nobility of Castile, Valencia, Catalonia,... | |
 | Cardinal Leonidas Goodwin - United States - 1922 - 1082 pages
...as a vast and signal dispensation of Providence,' as1 a reward for the piety of the monarchs. . . . To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction,...sovereigns had ordered their throne to be placed in public, Tinder a rich canopy of brocade of gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen awaited... | |
 | Sir William Alexander Craigie - English language - 1924 - 156 pages
...expe-cted from roving enterprise, seemed in harmony with the grandeur and dignity of his achievement. To recei-ve him with suitable pomp and disti-nction,...dignitaries of their court and the principal nobi-lity of Castl-le, Vale-ncia, Catalo-nia, and Aragon; all impa-tient to beho-ld the man who had confe-rred so... | |
 | Washington Irving - Travel - 2013 - 497 pages
...expected from roving enterprise, seemed in harmony with the grandeur and dignity of his achievement. To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction,...queen awaited his arrival, seated in state, with the prinee Juan beside them, and attended by the dignitaries of their court, and the principal nobility... | |
 | 152 pages
...freedom, our prosperity, and our glory. Lord MACAULAY, History of England. 106.** THE RETURN OF COLUMBUS. To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction,...their Court and the principal nobility of Castile, Valencia, Catalonia, and Arragon; all impatient to behold the man who had conferred so incalculable... | |
 | Elocution - 1900 - 774 pages
...and the balconies were crowded with the fair ; the very roofs were covered with spectators. , . . " To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction,...dignitaries of their court, and the principal nobility of the country, all impatient to behold the man who had conferred so incalculable a benefit upon th,e... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 pages
...expected from roving1 enterprise, seemed in harmony with the grandeur and dignity of his achievement. " To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction,...gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queon awaited hia arrival, seated in state, with the prince Juan beside them, and attended by the dignitaries... | |
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