 | Phineas Garrett - 1892 - 970 ページ
...coronal of pearls, — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, rep-wing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters, — the far-famed " Venice of the Aztecs." High over all nee the royal hill of Chapultepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned with... | |
 | James Clark Strong - 1893 - 306 ページ
...Indian empress with her coronal of pearls " — stood the fair city, with her white towers and massive temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters — the far-famed City of Mexico — the " Venice of the Aztecs." The hill of Chapuftepec, upon which was the summer... | |
 | Brigham Henry Roberts - 1909 - 496 ページ
...studded with towns and hamlets, and, in the midst — like some Indian empress with her coronal or pearls — the fair City of Mexico, with her white...the waters — the far-famed 'Venice of the Aztecs.' High over all rose the royal hill of Chapoltepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned with... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1895 - 440 ページ
...in the midst, like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls, was the fair city of Mexico, with white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing, as it...the waters — the far-famed "Venice of the Aztecs." High over all, rose the royal hill of Chapul tepee, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 558 ページ
...basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of the surface than at present ; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets,...waters — the far-famed " Venice of the Aztecs." High over all rose the royal hill of Chapultepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned with... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1898 - 484 ページ
...some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls, — the fair city of Mexico, with her white toweis and pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the...waters, — the far-famed " Venice of the Aztecs." High over all rose the royal hill of Chapoltepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned with... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1900 - 468 ページ
...their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and, in the midst, — like some Indian emprea with her coronal of pearls, — the fair city of Mexico,...waters, — the far-famed "Venice of the Aztecs." High over all rose the royal hill of Chapoltepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned with... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 ページ
...great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present, their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets...the waters — the farfamed " Venice of the Aztecs." 5. High above all arose the royal hill of Chapultepec (the residence of the Mexican monarchs), crowned... | |
 | Edna Henry Lee Turpin - 1902 - 432 ページ
...basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present ; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets,...waters, — the far-famed " Venice of the Aztecs." High over all rose the royal hill of Chapoltepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned with... | |
 | Robert Edward Anderson (M.A., F.A.S.) - 1903 - 220 ページ
...woods and forests. "In the midst, like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls, the fair city with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing...the waters — the far-famed 'Venice of the Aztecs.' " This view of the "Promised Land" will remind some of the picturesque account given by Livy (xxi,... | |
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In the centre of the great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and. in the midst, — like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls,... 
