 | 1828 - 464 pages
...a solemn feeling with the public joy. It was looked upon as a vast and single disTHE OMO. pensation of providence, in reward for the piety of the monarchs ; and the majestic and renerable appearance of the discoverer, so different from the youth and buoyancy that are generally... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1828 - 678 pages
...with spectators. It seemed as if the public eye could not be sated with gazing on these trophies of an unknown world ; or on the remarkable man by whom it had been discovered. The_re was a sublimity in this event, that mingled a solemn feeling with the public joy. It was looked... | |
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... by a brilliant cavalcade of Spanish chivalry. The streets were almost impassable from the countless multitude ; the windows and balconies were crowded with the fair ; the very roofs were covered with spectators. It seemed as if the public eye could... 
