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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... less disposed to set forward in any way the study of a writer who , being what his earnest cen- surers affirm , could only exert a mischievous in- fluence , if he exerted any , on his readers . How far my judgment approaches that of his ...
... less disposed to set forward in any way the study of a writer who , being what his earnest cen- surers affirm , could only exert a mischievous in- fluence , if he exerted any , on his readers . How far my judgment approaches that of his ...
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... less can the latter , which , at least in the nobler region of tragedy , is altogether an artificial production , claim this ; indeed it does not seek to do so , finding its glory in the renunciation of any such claim . Germany has some ...
... less can the latter , which , at least in the nobler region of tragedy , is altogether an artificial production , claim this ; indeed it does not seek to do so , finding its glory in the renunciation of any such claim . Germany has some ...
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... less fatal than we might have expected they would prove , even those influences that were manifestly hostile to the free development of genius in Spain . Thus it is quite true that Spain may be said finally to have passed from a land of ...
... less fatal than we might have expected they would prove , even those influences that were manifestly hostile to the free development of genius in Spain . Thus it is quite true that Spain may be said finally to have passed from a land of ...
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... less than the first aspect of its narrow limits would lead one to expect ; for it is composed in the worst style of affected eloquence ; however this may be partially redeemed by the tone of true affection which makes itself felt even ...
... less than the first aspect of its narrow limits would lead one to expect ; for it is composed in the worst style of affected eloquence ; however this may be partially redeemed by the tone of true affection which makes itself felt even ...
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... less , to surround the Spanish monarchy , quite disap- peared . A feeble minor , not less feeble in intel- lect than in age , occupied the throne . The court was the seat of miserable and disgraceful in- trigues . From that empire ...
... less , to surround the Spanish monarchy , quite disap- peared . A feeble minor , not less feeble in intel- lect than in age , occupied the throne . The court was the seat of miserable and disgraceful in- trigues . From that empire ...
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Página 221 - ¡Tanto se emprende en término de un dia! A florecer las rosas madrugaron, Y para envejecerse florecieron: Cuna y sepulcro en un boton hallaron. Tales los hombres sus fortunas vieron: En un dia nacieron y espiraron; Que pasados los siglos, horas fuéron.
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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...
Página 155 - ... idos, sombras, que fingís hoy a mis sentidos muertos cuerpo y voz, siendo verdad que ni tenéis voz ni cuerpo; que no quiero majestades fingidas, pompas no quiero fantásticas, ilusiones que al soplo menos ligero del aura han de deshacerse, bien como el florido almendro, que por madrugar sus flores, sin aviso y sin consejo, al primer soplo se apagan, marchitando y desluciendo de sus rosados capillos belleza, luz y ornamento.