Life's a dream: The great theatre of the world, from the Span., with an essay on the life of the author, by R.C. Trench |
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... heaven , saw it also in its swift decline and descent ; and had his long life been extended only a little longer , he would have seen it set altogether . The most important source from which the materials for Calderon's life are derived ...
... heaven , saw it also in its swift decline and descent ; and had his long life been extended only a little longer , he would have seen it set altogether . The most important source from which the materials for Calderon's life are derived ...
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... Heaven , which has not come down to us . Like so many other of the most distinguished authors of Spain , he began his active career as a soldier ; in his twenty - fifth year serving in the Milanese , and afterwards in the Low Countries ...
... Heaven , which has not come down to us . Like so many other of the most distinguished authors of Spain , he began his active career as a soldier ; in his twenty - fifth year serving in the Milanese , and afterwards in the Low Countries ...
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... Heaven , quite deserve to be placed on a level , if not indeed higher than it . A tender pathetic grace is shed over this last , which gives it a peculiar charm . Then too he has occupied what one might venture to call the region of ...
... Heaven , quite deserve to be placed on a level , if not indeed higher than it . A tender pathetic grace is shed over this last , which gives it a peculiar charm . Then too he has occupied what one might venture to call the region of ...
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... heaven . " " Heaven answers late , " he had scornfully replied . This was true , but though late it had answered still . There are scenes in Calderon equal to this ; I know of none in which his genius shines more gloriously forth . When ...
... heaven . " " Heaven answers late , " he had scornfully replied . This was true , but though late it had answered still . There are scenes in Calderon equal to this ; I know of none in which his genius shines more gloriously forth . When ...
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... heaven , " recur somewhat too often . He squanders in the con- fidence that what he scatters abroad will presently come back again to his hands ; seeing that what he has once used , he will not therefore feel the slightest scruple in ...
... heaven , " recur somewhat too often . He squanders in the con- fidence that what he scatters abroad will presently come back again to his hands ; seeing that what he has once used , he will not therefore feel the slightest scruple in ...
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Página 92 - Copacdbana. not be drawing down the sacred into the region of the profane, but elevating that which had been profaned into its own proper region and place. These legends of heathen antiquity supply the allegorical substratum for several of his autos* Now it is The True God Pan, or Perseus rescuing Andromeda, or Theseus destroying the Labyrinth, or Ulysses defying the enchantments of Circe, or the exquisite mythus of Cupid and Psyche. Each in turn supplies him with some new poetical aspect under which...
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