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...as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself m... ... just as often very loose. He had evidently a good colloquial knowledge of Spanish, but apparently not much more. It never 4 Don Quixote – Part I see... ...on of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly unmanageable, or that the untranslatable word... ...erseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. Th... ...escribed as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has entirely evapo- rated under the manipulation of the sev... ...wed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissance literature, which took root and flourished and even threatened ...

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..., farther on a coquettish painting of Joseph Bridau, a gloomy picture of a Spanish alchemist by Hippolyte Schinner, an autograph of Lord Byron to Lady... ... which is in the royal palace of Vienna. On either side were candelabra of Renaissance de- sign. A clock, by Boule, on a tortoise-shell stand, inlaid ... ...em, as the sight of a bull goaded with banderols amuses the com- pany in a Spanish circus. “You may kick as you please, but you can’t make a solitude ...

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...lier, pure as Galahad. Corthell was a beautiful artist-priest of the early Renaissance. Even Jadwin was a merchant prince, a great financial captain. ... ... Filz d’Aymon,” with an illuminated letter of miraculous workmanship; or a Renaissance gon- falon of silk once white but now brown with age, yet in 2... ...play at the same time?” “Yes, yes. Go on. How do you know anything about a Spanish dance?” “I learned it long ago. I know everything about any- thing ...

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...ans, the young and rich Charles de Gondreville, who afterwards died in the Spanish campaign. By that time Flavie had had a second son, whom she hencef... ...XIII., coming singularly, as it did, between the bad taste of the expiring renaissance and the heavy grandeur of Louis XIV., at its dawn. This transi-... ...cried Zelie, making her glass ring by the way in which she sucked down the Spanish liquid. “What fortunes we could get!” Zelie had now reached her hig...

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...iver, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the Renaissance. The Loire gives a great “style” to a landscape of which the fe... ...ich is the work of Michel Colomb, one of the earlier glories of the French Renaissance; it is really a lesson in good taste. Originally placed in the ... ... of the exquisite. Such a piece of work is the purest flower of the French Renaissance; there is nothing more delicate in all Touraine. There is anoth... ...ight 20 A Little Tour in France into the brilliant movement of the French Renaissance. But it is too rich to describe,—I can only touch it here and t... ..., fair windows look as if they had expanded to let in the rosy dawn of the Renaissance. Charming, for that matter, are the windows of all the chateaux... ...nces of Carcassonne, which was one of the bulwarks of their kingdom on the Spanish quarter; and from this time forth, being regarded as impregnable, t... ...f Ferdinand V., King of Aragon,—an episode terminated, by the death of the Spanish prince, within a year. She was twenty-two years regent of the Nethe...

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...mediaevalist. She was also interested in any treasures that dated from the Renaissance, and employed her allies as so many devoted commission agents. ... ...s of sweetest breath— A longed-for touch of bliss! The features of the Spanish girl’s portrait have served so often as those of the courtesan in s... ...thing could be more dainty than the description of the parting between the Spanish girl and the Normandy Cap- tain of Artillery, who, in the delirium ... ...ew, however, the memoir of Jan Diaz, born at Bourges in 1807, the son of a Spanish prisoner, may very likely some day deceive the compiler of some /Un... ...’ supper-party he had told it for the first time. The final picture of the Spanish grandee, starved to death where he stood in the cupboard walled up ... ...in is, with me, a sort of superstition. From my earliest youth I have read Spanish books, and a heap of gloomy romances and tales of adventures in thi... ...e to overlook the value of the personality which completed this gem of the Renaissance. So by the time the visitors from Sancerre had taken their leav...

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...as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself m... ... just as often very loose. He had evidently a good colloquial knowledge of Spanish, but apparently not much more. It never seems to occur to him that ... ...on of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly 4 Don Quixote unmanageable, or that the untr... ...erseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. Th... ...escribed as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has entirely evapo- rated under the manipulation of the sev... ...wed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissance literature, which took root and flourished and even threatened ...

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...ney) less than a year after his marriage, on the very day that a beautiful Spanish dancer who had been delighting thronged audiences in the old Opera-... ...of Beaufort’s few fatuities), had dawdled a while in the library hung with Spanish leather and furnished with Buhl and malachite, where a few men were... ...de preco- cious comments, and possessed outlandish arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar. Under th... ... who had been persuaded to come, actually wore her mother’s cam- eos and a Spanish blonde shawl. The Countess Olenska was the only young woman at the ... ...,” the essays of P . G. Hamerton, and a won- derful new volume called “The Renaissance” by Walter Pater. He talked easily of Botticelli, and spoke of ... ...e day before his departure he walked with her to the ruinous garden of the Spanish Mission. The background lent itself to allusions to European scenes...

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...the drawer of an old oak cabinet, a fine specimen of the period called the Renaissance, on which could still be seen, partly effaced, the famous royal... ...y belonged to old Monsieur de la Bertelliere. Item, three gold quadruples, Spanish, of Philip V ., struck in 1729, given to her one by one by Madame G... ... given birth to love. These two Marys so different, so well represented by Spanish art, embody one of those shining symbols with which Chris- tianity ... ...nie went with him on his first voyage, like that image of the Virgin which Spanish mariners fastened to their masts, if he attrib- uted his first succ...

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...homely veracity, its artless artfulness, of the works of the early Italian Renaissance. On the pedestal was cut the name—Barnaby Striker, Esq. Rowland... ...e infinite! Excuse me if I brag a little; all those Italian fellows in the Renaissance used to brag. There was a sensation once common, I am sure, in ... ...ause, and does n’t history noto- riously repeat itself? There was a little Spanish girl at a second-rate English boarding-school thirty years ago!....... ...the striking ornaments of the Pincian. He spoke a queer jargon of Italian, Spanish, French, and English, humor- ously relieved with scraps of ecclesia... ...ad gone together one night to a ball given by a lady of some renown in the Spanish colony, and very late, on his way home, Roderick came up to Rowland... ...d she turned to Rowland. “I am going en Pompadour.” “Going where?” “To the Spanish Embassy, or whatever it is.” “All down the front, signorina? Dio bu...

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...ly culture, symbolised for Mrs. Hicks in what she called “the court of the Renaissance.” Eldorada, of course, was their chief prophetess; but even the... ...e. Among those invited to meet their Serene Highnesses were the French and Spanish Ambassadors, the Duchesse de Vichy, Prince and Princess Bagnidilucc...

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...ble only to that of the hotel Forbin-Janson, the other in the style of the Renaissance. The dining-room, which had no rival in Paris except that of th... ...t us.” “Is he an Englishman? they are fond of horses.” “No, he looks to me Spanish.” “That’s a pity; they say Spaniards are always poor. Stay here wit...

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...r luncheon at the ranch house, but would push on to Guadalajara and have a Spanish dinner at Solotari’s, as he had originally planned. There had not b... ...m the hotel, Presley ate his long-deferred Mexi- can dinner—an omelette in Spanish-Mexican style, frijoles and tortillas, a salad, and a glass of whit... ...nable love-song to the ac- companiment of a guitar and an accordion. These Spanish-Mexicans, decayed, picturesque, vicious, and romantic, never failed... ...lvarado, and the bandit Jesus T ejeda, and the days when Los Muertos was a Spanish grant, a veritable principality, leagues in extent, and when there ... ... shoulder with the other. He was voluble in his welcome, talking partly in Spanish, partly in En- glish. So he had come back again, this great fellow,... ... that once had adorned the banquet hall of an Ital- ian palace of the late Renaissance. It was black with age, and against its sombre surfaces glitter...

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...ts of the sixteenth century; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteent... ...ks, nor in a fine park the toylike chateau of Rosenberg, nor the beautiful renaissance edifice of the Exchange, nor its spire composed of the twisted ... ... gentlemen carried in their belts to give the coup de grace. Its origin is Spanish. It was never either yours, or mine, or the hunter’s, nor did it be...

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...hey are kings, elsewhere camp-fol- lowers, as a man may know Russian and yet be ignorant of Spanish; but this fellow had a frank, headlong power of st... ... certain childish pride in forming part of it. The book I read was about Italy in the early Renaissance, the pageantries and the light loves of prince...

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...ied among cypresses against a cloudless sky; sometimes they made love by a Renaissance well- head, and sometimes they wandered through the Campagna by... ... in a raucous voice, and some list- lessly read. They are French. Italian, Spanish, Japanese, coloured; some are fat and some are thin; and under the ...

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...being able to hold it. Max, taken prisoner by the English, was sent to the Spanish hulks at the island of Cabrera, the most horrible of all stations f... ...enriched with the precious gifts of the glorious works called forth by the Renaissance. Among the pictures obtained by the Descoings and inherited by ... ... a chapel altar, holding his head between his hands. After half an hour of Spanish re- flections, he spied the squirrel, which Goddet could not re- fr...

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... tint, the velvet skin as of some golden fruit, the arched instep, and the Spanish waist from which the short basque skirt fell crisply. Both mother a... ... horse ran away with you, and I have been to Rouen to see if I could get a Spanish bit which, they tell me, a horse can’t take between his teeth. I en... ...ved fame,—well, he sold his pictures to buy armor and old furniture of the Renaissance and Louis XV.; just now he is seeking political power. Admit th...

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... He had the blue eyes and the curved nose of the house of Navarre, and the Spanish cut of the marked features which were in after days the type of the... ...re, the chateau of Henri II. It is in the style of architecture now called Renaissance, and presents 70 Catherine dé Medici the most fantastic featur... ...a Force mark the transition between what is called the architecture of the Renaissance and that of Henri III., Henri IV ., and Louis XIII. This archae...

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...s not reinstated in the Commissariat till 1823, when he was needed for the Spanish war. In 1830 he took office as the fourth wheel of the coach, at th... ... Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had never invented more strangely twining monsters than these t... ...n it has now reached, allowing it to hold its own against Florence and the Renaissance— Stidmann was in Chanor’s private room when the army lace manuf...

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... town bull’s; it won’t matter whether they are Germans, Austrians, French, Spanish, or even Brazilians— they will be the Germans or Brazilians who tak... ...ome days before, reading books like Ranke’s History of the Popes, Symonds’ Renaissance, Motley’s Rise of the Dutch Re- public and Luther’s Table Talk.... ...is particular case it was very expensive. The mistress of the Grand Duke—a Spanish dancer of passionate appearance —singled out Edward for her glances... ...od time with several amiable girls. And that was the end of Edward—for the Spanish dancer of passionate appear- ance wanted one night of him for his b... ... than a five years’ further run. She was twenty-four and, as she said: “We Spanish women are horrors at thirty.” Edward swore that he would provide fo... ...ut four. (I am talking in pounds, not dollars.) Edward’s excesses with the Spanish Lady had reduced its value to about three—as the maximum figure, wi...

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... that he was pleased to see people point him out to one another. He wore a Spanish cloak, the capa, and he flung the red and green velvet of its lini... ...ore 1291 that copies of Zohar began to 50 TheMagician be circulated by a Spanish Jew named Moses de Leon, who claimed to possess an autograph manusc... ... in the Saint Anne had the airless leth argy of some damasked chapel in a Spanish nunnery, and over the landscapes brooded a wan spirit of evil that ... ...as burdened with the decadence of Rome and with the passionate vice of the Renaissance; and it was tortured, too, by all the introspec tion of this l... ...elf was quite Parisian. As they drove along, she flirted a little with her Spanish fan and stole a glance at herself in the glass. Her gloves were so ...

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... his works, Italy found in them the idea of her unity and the germs of her renaissance among the nations of Eu- rope. Whilst it is idle to protest aga... ...n be defended against foreigners by Italian valour. And although Swiss and Spanish infantry may be con- *The battles of Il Taro, 1495; Alessandria, 14... ...ertheless there was some evidence of it at the battle of Ravenna, when the Spanish infantry were confronted by German battalions, who follow the same ...

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...d ignorance among the monks of that age, the encyclopaedic movement of the Renaissance was attracting all the lofty minds. Rabelais threw himself into... ...y dragged after them in this direction not a few of the Latin poets of the Renaissance, who believed themselves bound to imitate them. Is Italy withou... ...strument was ready, but the hand was not forthcoming. Neither is there any Spanish translation, a fact which can be more easily understood. The Inquis... ...s death, John Ozell, translator on a large scale of French, Ital- ian, and Spanish authors, revised Motteux’s edition, which he published in five volu... ...rdly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them. Ther... ...g. Changing then his clothes, he rode a Naples courser, a Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fleet horse, unto w... ...e the pike, played with the two-handed sword, with the backsword, with the Spanish tuck, the dag- ger, poniard, armed, unarmed, with a buckler, with a...

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... me out; the story is to be called When the Devil W as Well: scene, Italy, Renaissance; colour, purely imaginary of course, my own unregenerate idea o... ...ine-trees and hard by a running brook, we are to fish, hunt, sketch, study Spanish, French, Latin, Euclid, and History; and, if possible, not quarrel.... ... PLEASE, [AUGUST] 1881 DEAR HENLEY, – To answer a point or two. First, the Spanish ship was sloop-rigged and clumsy, because she was fitted out by som...

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...The Magic Skin Cairo, some inlaid pottery, and some carved ebony—genu- ine Renaissance work, just come in, and of perfect beauty.” In the stranger’s f... ...the world as stronger spirits refuse. Then there is poverty in splendor, a Spanish pauper, concealing the life of a beggar by his title, his bravery, ...

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...ay the most ingenuous, pae- ans, perhaps, that have been written since the Renaissance: “At the Water’s Edge” (Au Bord de l’Eau) and the “Rustic Venus... ...rapidly did he try to speak: “My boots, my saber —my cartridge box—and—the Spanish dagger, which is on my night table. Hurry now!” The obstinate peasa...

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...e beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last... ...best bargain he ever made. A pair of church pigeons for a couple of wicked Spanish fowls that eat their own eggs! Don’t you and Fitchett boast too muc... ...at one time. To poor Dorothea these severe classical nudities and smirking Renaissance-Correggiosities were pain- fully inexplicable, staring into the... ... podremos. Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. —Spanish Proverb. WHILE LYDGATE, safely married and with the Hospital under ...

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...e beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last... ...best bargain he ever made. A pair of church pigeons for a couple of wicked Spanish fowls that eat their own eggs! Don’t you and Fitchett boast too muc... ...at one time. To poor Dorothea these severe classical nudities and smirking Renaissance Correggiosities were painfully inexplicable, staring into the m... ...dremos.” “Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.” —Spanish Proverb. W hile Lydgate, safely married and with the Hospital under...

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...hematics, as- tronomy, and like sciences, for several centuries before the Renaissance, was, roughly speaking, all derived from Latin treatises ultima... ...e 202 The Koran Gagnier’s Vie de Mahom. i. 362. 8 Ar. fulani (whence the Spanish fulano) identical with the Heb. p. 155, used of a person only in Ru...

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... old sea-dog might have welcomed the sight of the enemy’s topsails off the Spanish Main. There, at least, he seems to say, is some- thing obvious to b... ..., and the coun- try at large was keen for the new learning. But though the renaissance had begun, it was impeded and dangerously threatened by the pow... ...ary majority would prefer to remain where they were. Many would choose the Renaissance; many some stately and simple period of Grecian life; and still...