That though the meat we fed on was as fair to look on, as in Spain, yet the substance and nourishment in it came far short of it, by reason of the pasture, which is drier and hath not the change of springs which the pastures of Europe have, but is…
But secondly, he told me that the Climate of those parts had this effect, to produce a fair show, but little matter or substance. As in the flesh we fed on, so likewise in all the fruits there, which are most fair and beautiful to behold, most sweet…
What tho’ Felicity thy gift shall stream/ Sunlike o’er Mexico with brightest beam,/ Not all the splendour that her rays impart,/Will e’ver illumine my benighted heart,/ When destitute of thee, its only ray/ Without the hope of kind returning day.
‘As soon as they had gained the front of the Spanish army they halted, and arranged themselves on each side of the wall of the causeway, to admit the view of a band still more magnificent of the Emperor’s officers, in the midst of which appeared…
