Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe, Volume 4H. Colburn and Company, 1823 - Italian literature |
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... writers of the Spanish stage , Lope de Vega and Calderon , have a chief of banditti as their princi- pal character ... writer of Valencia , and The Robber Bal- thasar of another anonymous author , excited the interest of the spectators ...
... writers of the Spanish stage , Lope de Vega and Calderon , have a chief of banditti as their princi- pal character ... writer of Valencia , and The Robber Bal- thasar of another anonymous author , excited the interest of the spectators ...
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... writer are sufficient to form two or three French plays . How surprising to us is the richness of the imagination of this man , whose labours seem so far to surpass the powers and extent of human life . Of a life of seventy - two years ...
... writer are sufficient to form two or three French plays . How surprising to us is the richness of the imagination of this man , whose labours seem so far to surpass the powers and extent of human life . Of a life of seventy - two years ...
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... writers in Spain had exhibited , like Seneca , an inflated style and great affectation of sentiment . Lope de Vega himself was deeply tainted with their defects . With his astonishing fertility of genius , he found it more easy to adorn ...
... writers in Spain had exhibited , like Seneca , an inflated style and great affectation of sentiment . Lope de Vega himself was deeply tainted with their defects . With his astonishing fertility of genius , he found it more easy to adorn ...
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... writers of the sixteenth century ) , which he had formed , was afterwards introduced into Spain , and produced there in a much greater degree than in Italy that pretension , affectation of style , and pédantic ex- pression , which ...
... writers of the sixteenth century ) , which he had formed , was afterwards introduced into Spain , and produced there in a much greater degree than in Italy that pretension , affectation of style , and pédantic ex- pression , which ...
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... writers of circumscribed minds , who could not comprehend him . None of these imitators , however , had the talent of Gongora , and their style in consequence became still more false and exaggerated . They soon divided themselves into ...
... writers of circumscribed minds , who could not comprehend him . None of these imitators , however , had the talent of Gongora , and their style in consequence became still more false and exaggerated . They soon divided themselves into ...
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Page 56 - Era del año la estación florida En que el mentido robador de Europa Media luna las armas de .su frente, Y el sol todos los rayos de su pelo, Luciente honor del cielo, En campos de zafiro pace estrellas...
Page 363 - Now shrunk and languished with her blood imbrued. As when a rose, erewhile of bloom so gay, Thrown from the careless virgin's breast away, Lies faded on the plain, the living red, The snowy white, and all its fragrance fled; So from her cheeks the roses died away, And pale in death the beauteous Inez lay. With dreadful smiles, and crimsoned with her blood, Round the wan victim the stern murderers stood, Unmindful of the sure, though future hour, Sacred to vengeance and her lover's power.
Page 69 - IMAGEN espantosa de la muerte, sueño cruel, no turbes más mi pecho, mostrándome cortado el nudo estrecho, consuelo solo de mi adversa suerte. Busca de algún tirano el muro fuerte, de jaspe las paredes, de oro el techo, o el rico avaro en el angosto lecho haz que temblando con sudor despierte. El uno...
Page 58 - No la Trinacria, en sus montañas, fiera armó de crueldad, calzó de viento, que redima feroz, salve ligera su piel manchada de colores ciento : pellico es ya la que en los bosques era mortal horror al que con paso lento los bueyes a su albergue reducía, pisando la dudosa luz del día.
Page 372 - Where foaming on the shore the tide appears, A sacred fane its hoary arches rears : Dim o'er th.e sea the evening shades descend, And at the holy shrine devout we bend : There, while the tapers o'er the altar blaze, Our prayers and earnest vows to heaven we raise. " Safe through the deep, where every yawning wave Still to the sailor's eye displays his grave ; Through howling tempests, and through gulfs untried, O mighty God, be thou our watchful guide.
Page 57 - Un monte era de miembros eminente este (que, de Neptuno hijo fiero, de un ojo ilustra el orbe de su frente, émulo casi del mayor lucero) cíclope, a quien el pino más valiente, bastón, le obedecía, tan ligero, y al grave peso junco tan delgado, que un día era bastón y otro cayado.
Page 383 - By cruel want, beneath the parents' eye, In these wide wastes their infant race shall die ; Through dreary wilds, where never pilgrim trod Where caverns yawn, and rocky fragments nod, The hapless lover and his bride shall stray, By night unshelter'd, and forlorn by day.
Page 362 - There in some dreary cavern's rocky womb, Amid the horrors of sepulchral gloom, For him whose love I mourn, my love shall glow, The sigh shall murmur, and the tear shall flow...
Page 398 - Olhai que há tanto tempo que, cantando O vosso Tejo e os vossos Lusitanos, A Fortuna me traz peregrinando, Novos trabalhos vendo e novos danos...