History of Spanish Literature: In Three Volumes, Volume 2Harper and Brothers, 1849 |
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Página 106 - ... exulting in his success as an achievement of no small moment. And such, in fact, it was, for we have abundant proof that the fanaticism for these romances was so great in Spain, during the sixteenth century, as to have become matter of alarm to the more judicious....
Página 209 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Página 400 - He has given to the whole a new colouring, and, in some respects, a new physiognomy. His drama is more poetical in its tone and tendencies, and has less the air of truth and reality, than that of his great predecessor. In its more successful portions — which are rarely objectionable from their moral tone — it seems almost as if we were transported to another and more gorgeous world, where the scenery is lighted up...
Página 119 - ... with all its unquenchable and irresistible humor, with its bright views of the world, and its cheerful trust in goodness and virtue — it was written in his old age, at the conclusion of a life nearly every step of which had been marked with disappointed expectations, disheartening struggles and sore calamities ; that he began it in a prison, and that it was finished when he felt the hand of death pressing heavy and cold upon his heart. If this be remembered as we read, we may feel, as we ought...
Página 147 - As stormy winds rush In tempest and fury, Your angry noise hush ; — Move gently, move gently, Restrain your wild sweep ; Hold your branches at rest, — My babe is asleep. " My babe all divine, With earth's sorrows oppressed, Seeks in slumber an instant His...
Página 108 - But that he did there is uo question. No book of chivalry was written after the appearance of Don Quixote in 1605 ; and from the same date, even those already enjoying the greatest favor ceased, with one or two unimportant exceptions, to be reprinted ; so that, from that time to the present, they have been constantly disappearing, until they are now among the rarest of literary curiosities...
Página 249 - ... their character, co-operating with the peculiar and most stimulating influences of their early history. We close our remarks on Lope de Vega with some excellent reflections of our author on the rapidity of his composition, and showing to what extent his genius was reverenced by his contemporaries : " Lope de Vega's immediate success, as we have seen, was in proportion to his rare powers and favorable opportunities.
Página 119 - ... whole of his Don Quixote, we should, as we read it, bear in mind, that this delightful romance was not the result of a youthful exuberance of feeling and a happy external condition, nor composed in...
Página 50 - And dost thou, holy Shepherd, leave Thine unprotected flock alone, Here, in this darksome vale, to grieve, While thou ascend'st thy glorious throne? " Oh, where can they their hopes now turn, Who never lived but on thy love? Where rest the hearts for thee that burn, When thou art lost in light above? " How shall those eyes now find repose That turn, in vain, thy smile to see?
Página 109 - ... in his interpretations of it. These two sally forth from their native village in search of adventures, of which the excited imagination of the knight, turning windmills into giants, solitary inns into castles, and galley-slaves into oppressed gentlemen, finds abundance wherever he goes ; while the esquire translates them all into the plain prose of truth with an admirable simplicity, quite unconscious of its own...