The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the FifthCrosby, Nichols, 1853 - 322 |
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Strona xiii - ... tapers in their hands. He himself followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral. The ceremony closed with sprinkling holy water on the coffin in the usual form, and, all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose...
Strona 47 - I ever saw — he had his head in the glass five times as long as any of us, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine...
Strona 314 - His garden below, with its tank and broken fountain, was overgrown with tangled thickets of fig, mulberry, and almond, with a few patches of potherbs, and here and there an orange-tree or a cypress, to mark where once the terrace smiled with its blooming parterres. Without the gate, the great walnut-tree, sole relic of the past with which time had not dealt rudely, spread forth its broad and vigorous boughs to shroud and dignify the desolation ; yet in the lovely face of nature, changeless in its...
Strona xii - ... prompted him to aim at something extraordinary, at some new and singular act of piety, that would display his zeal and merit the favour of Heaven. The act on which he fixed was as wild and uncommon as any that superstition ever suggested to a weak and disordered fancy.
Strona 278 - III., as a parting civility, desired to know what favour he would accept at his hands. The boon asked, and granted, was leave to see the face of Charles V., in order to test the fidelity of the portraits by Titian. The finest portraits of Charles, as- well as his remains, were then still at the Escorial. The marble sarcophagus being moved from its niche, and the lid raised, the lights of the Pantheon once more gleamed on the features of the dead emperor. The pale brow and...
Strona xiii - ... the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those awful sentiments which such a singular solemnity was calculated to inspire. But either the fatiguing length of the ceremony, or the impression which...
Strona 246 - He received them eagerly from the archbishop, and taking one in each hand, for some moments he silently contemplated the figure of the Saviour, and then clasped it to his bosom. Those who stood nearest to the bed now heard him say quickly, as if replying to...
Strona 26 - Carlos had already shown symptoms of the mental malady which darkened the long life of Queen Juana, his greatgrandmother by the side both of his father, Philip of Spain, and of his mother, Mary of Portugal. Of a sullen and passionate temper, he lived in a state of perpetual rebellion against his aunt, and displayed in the nursery the weakly mischievous spirit which marked his short career at his father's court.
Strona 48 - Thursday a provision of eels and other rich fish (/*'*coda grueso) for Friday's fast. There was a constant demand for anchovies, tunny, and other potted fish, and sometimes a complaint that the trouts of the country were too small : the olives, on the other hand, were too large — and the Emperor wished, instead, for olives of Perejon.
Strona 35 - He had passed through this place a great many years before, and having been struck at that time with the delightful situation of the monastery of St. Justus, belonging to the order of St.