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adventures afterwards Alfonso the Wise Alvaro de Luna Amadis Amadis de Gaula Arabic Aragon Archpriest Argote de Molina asonante Ayala ballads beginning Bernardo del Carpio called Cancionero Castile Castilian Celestina century character chivalry Christian Chronicle Conde Lucanor Coplas copy Count court Crónica curious death dialect Don Enrique Don John Manuel Don Quixote doubt drama early edition Enrique de Villena Enzina España Fernan fictions folio French Gayangos Granada Hist honor John the Second Juan Juan de Mena king knight language Latin Lope de Vega Madrid manuscript Marquis Moorish noticed Obras original Paris Partidas passages Pedro Perez period poem poet poetical poetry popular Portuguese Prince printed prose Provençal published reign rhyme romances Sanchez Santillana says seems Spain Spanish poetry spirit stanzas story style tion Toledo tone translation Valencia verses Vicente villancico whole written
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Página 18 - Had not his armour been so true, he had lost either life or limb ; The Cid called out again, " For Heaven's sake succour him...
Página 112 - Si tú quisieses, señora, yo sería tu servidor » «Vete de ahí. enemigo, malo, falso, engañador, que ni poso en ramo verde, ni en prado que tenga flor ; que si el agua hallo clara, turbia la bebía yo ; que no quiero haber marido, porque hijos no haya, no; no quiero placer con ellos, ni menos consolación.
Página 18 - I am Ruy Diaz, the champion of Bivar ; Strike amongst them, gentlemen, for sweet mercy's sake !" There, where Bermudez fought, amidst the foe they brake, Three hundred bannered knights, it was a gallant show. Three hundred Moors they killed, a man with every blow ; When they wheeled and turned, as many more lay slain, You might see them raise their lances and level them again.
Página 48 - A tyrant doth signify a cruel lord, who by force, or by craft, or by treachery, hath obtained power over any realm or country ; and such men be of such nature, that, when once they have grown strong in the land, they love rather to work their own profit, though it be...
Página 82 - The first seven stanzas of the Spanish poem constitute a prologue, in which Death issues his summons partly in his own person, and partly in that of a preaching friar, ending thus : — Come to the Dance of Death, all ye whose fate By birth is mortal, be ye great or small ; And willing come, nor loitering, nor late, Else force shall bring you struggling to my thrall : For since yon friar hath uttered loud his call To penitence and godliness sincere, He that delays must hope no wailing here ; For...
Página 194 - ... not even the Portuguese, which approach the nearest in original and early materials ; nor the French, which, in Joinville and Froissart, make the highest claims in another direction. For these old Spanish chronicles, whether they have their foundations in truth or in fable, always strike farther down than those of any other nation into the deep soil of the popular feeling and character.
Página 411 - But it was all done in secrecy and in darkness. From the moment when the Inquisition laid its grasp on the object of its suspicions to that of his execution, no voice was heard to issue from its cells. The very witnesses it summoned were punished with death...
Página 131 - James's holy shrine, Thy knighthood first was won ; When Ferdinand, my royal sire, Confessed thee for a son. He gave thee then thy knightly arms, My mother gave thy steed ; Thy spurs were buckled by these hands, That thou no grace might'st need. And had not chance forbid the vow, I thought with thee to wed ; But Count Lozano's daughter fair Thy happy bride was led. With her came wealth, an ample store, But power was mine, and state...
Página 227 - ... and seemed so dangerous, that in 1553 they were prohibited from being printed, sold, or read in the American colonies ; and in 1555 the Cortes earnestly asked that the same prohibition might be extended to Spain itself, and that all the extant copies of romances of chivalry might be publicly burned. And finally, half a century later, the happiest work of the greatest genius Spain has produced bears witness on every page to the prevalence of an absolute fanaticism for books of chivalry, and becomes...
Página 140 - ... and legendary, partly entirely romantic or fictitious. They record not only the age-long wars against the Saracen, *"The English and Scotch ballads, with which they may most naturally be compared, belong to a ruder state of society, where a personal violence and coarseness prevailed which did not, indeed, prevent the poetry it produced from being full of energy, and sometimes of tenderness ; but which necessarily had less dignity and elevation than belong to the character, if not the condition,...