 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1898 - 820 pages
...Comares is broken by a superb arch , to the right and left of which are two other beautiful ar-hanljas. Over the arches of the recesses are inscribed Arabic...the rainbow, when it shines, and the sun is my lord. Aou'l HaMiM? (Yusuf I. ; p. 350). The TORKK DE CoMAitES, 148 ft. high, is said to have been erected... | |
 | Flavel Benjamin Tiffany - 1906 - 108 pages
...toilet-room of the queen, and to the underground chambers. Over the arches of the Sala de la Barca we read : "He who comes to me, tortured by thirst, will find...the rainbow when it shines, and the sun is my lord." The Hall of the Ambassadors (Sala de los Embajadors) was the state reception-room of the monarchs.... | |
 | Flavel Benjamin Tiffany - 1906 - 100 pages
...the arches of the Sala de la Barca we read : "He who comes to me, tortured by thirst, will find watei pure and fresh, sweet and unmixed. I am like the rainbow when it shines, and the sun is my lord." The Hall of the Ambassadors (Sala de los Embajadors) was the state reception-room of the monarchs.... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1908 - 846 pages
...the Hall of the Ambassadors. To the right and left of the arch are two other beautiful ar-hanîjae. Over the arches of the recesses are inscribed Arabic...thirst, will find water, pure and fresh, sweet and nnmixed. I am like the rainbow, when it shines, and the sun is my lord. Abu'l Hadjâf (Yûsuf I. ;... | |
 | Janie Villiers-Wardell - 1909 - 352 pages
...recesses in the Sala de la Barca one is specially worthy of mention, for it is delightfully poetic. " He who comes to me, tortured by thirst, will find...rainbow, when it shines, and the sun is my lord." The Mosque of Cordova is called " The Wonder of Spain," and with reason. It is so wonderful that mere... | |
 | JOEL COOK - 1910 - 742 pages
...them are verses in Arabic testifying the goodness and nobleness of Allah, of which this is one : " He who comes to me tortured by thirst, will find water,...the rainbow when it shines, and the sun is my lord." The thick walls of the Hall are pierced by deeply recessed windows, giving fine views over the city... | |
 | Keith Clark - 1914 - 568 pages
...thing of reflections, a thing for the imagination. It declares itself in its Arabic inscription — " I am like the rainbow when it shines and the sun is my Lord." It is not the most beautiful, or, rather, it is not the most over-emphatically Alhambrian of the palace... | |
 | Robert Medill McBride - 1926 - 312 pages
...the kings, while here and there appear verses of hyperbolic poetry. One of these inscriptions runs: "He who comes to me tortured by thirst will find water...the rainbow when it shines, and the sun is my lord." Considering the relative impermanency of the material used in all this mass of intricate design, for... | |
 | Robert Medill McBride - 1926 - 312 pages
...the kings, while here and there appear verses of hyperbolic poetry. One of these inscriptions runs: "He who comes to me tortured by thirst will find water...the rainbow when it shines, and the sun is my lord." Considering the relative impermanency of the material used in all this mass of intricate design, for... | |
 | Mildred Hornsby Harrigan - 1928 - 330 pages
...of blue southern sky, a fantastically beautiful vision. How appropriate is the Arab inscription — "He who comes to me tortured by thirst will find water...the rainbow when it shines and the sun is my Lord." Above the arcades at the northern end rises the stately crenellated Tower of Comares, the most magnificent... | |
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he who comes to me, tortured by thirst, will find water, pure and fresh, sweet and unmixed. I am like the rainbow, when it shines, and the sun is my lord. 