A New History of Spanish Literature

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H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 551 pagina's
 

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Pagina 466 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted— ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, 425 The marks of that which once hath been.
Pagina 72 - Last night I was the King of Spain, — to-day no king am I ; Last night fair castles held my train, — to-night where shall I lie? Last night a hundred pages did serve me on the knee, — . To-night not one I call mine own : — not one pertains to me.
Pagina 133 - Now the Rome of slaves hath perish'd, and the Rome of freemen holds her place, I, from out the Northern Island sunder'd once from all the human race, I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.
Pagina 468 - Valera, we find that complete synthesis of gravity of matter and gaiety of manner which is the glittering crown of art, and which out of Spanish literature is to be found only in Shakespeare, and even in him in a far less obvious degree.
Pagina 287 - Shakespeare is a well-spring of characters which are saturated with the comic spirit; with more of what we will call blood-life than is to be found anywhere out of Shakespeare; and they are of this world, but they are of the world enlarged to our embrace by imagination, and by great poetic imagination.
Pagina 283 - He expressed the most unbounded admiration for Cervantes, and said that the ' novelas' of that author had first inspired him with the ambition of excelling in fiction, and that, until disabled by illness, he had been a constant reader of them.
Pagina 23 - Ensayo historico-critico sobre la legislacion y principales cuerpos legales de los reinos de Leon y Castilla, especialmente sobre el código de las siete partidas de D. Alfonso el Sabio. Madrid: Imprenta de DE Aguado. 2 vols. en 89 Trabajo de gran erudición y avanzada crítica. La 1" edición se hizo en Zaragoza, 1832.
Pagina 7 - ... si fure omne mortal, la mira tomara; si rei celestrial, estos dos dexara, tomara el encenso quel pertenecera.
Pagina 192 - Principe y cauallero de la Ardiente Espada Amadis de Grecia, hijo de Lisuarte de Grecia...
Pagina 7 - ... celsas videre rates atque inter opacum adlabi nemus et tacitis incumbere remis, terrentur visu subito cunctique relictis consurgunt mensis. audax quos rumpere Pallas 110 sacra vetat raptoque volat telo obvius ipse et procul e tumulo 'iuvenes, quae causa subegit ignotas temptare vias? quo tenditis?

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