"The darkness of her Oriental eye Accorded with her Moorish origin (Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by; In Spain…"

"The noble Moor of Spain is anything but a pure Arab of the desert, he is half a Berber (from the Aryan family) and hi…"

"Many of the traits on which modern Europe prides itself came to it from Muslim Spain. Diplomacy, free trade, open bor…"

"She’s for the Moores, and Martyrdom."

"I want to see the gardens and palace of the Alcazar where the Moorish Kings used to live. It is as perfect an archite…"

"But as a Moor, who to her cheeks prefers White spots t’ allure her black idolaters, Methought she look’d all o’er bep…"

"Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole…"

"I should wish, however, to know what this reason is, through which we are more excellent than all the tribes of anima…"

"Will you, laying aside all partiality, consider in the silence of your thoughts that we [humans] are creatures either…"

"But if men either knew themselves thoroughly, or had the slightest knowledge of God, they would never claim as their …"