A typical Seville shop reaches far along the street front, with many open doors, and a counter running the full length. Here ladies sit in pairs and groups, never singly, to cheapen fans and mantillas, while the smiling salesmen, cigarette… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea! — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.... — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire. — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
