 ... the human mind was enslaved in Spain, but how grievously it had become cramped and crippled by the chains it had so long worn. But we shall be greatly in error, if, as we notice these deep marks and strange peculiarities in Spanish literature, we...  The North American Review - Page 30edited by - 1850Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...Second. This dark work was done earlier. Its foundations were laid deep and sure in the old Castiltan character. It was the result of the excess and misdirection...faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognized such elements, presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, picturesque, and ennobling ; but it was... | |
 | George Ticknor - Spanish literature - 1849 - 566 pages
...diseased a condition of the national character. That generous and manly spirit which is the breath of intellectual life to any people was restrained and...faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognized such elements presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, picturesque, and ennobling ; but it was... | |
 | George Ticknor - Spanish literature - 1849 - 616 pages
...strange peculiarities in Spanish literature, we suppose they were produced by the direct acNN tion either of the Inquisition or of the civil government...faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognized such elements presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, picturesque, and ennobling ; but it was... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1850 - 566 pages
...diseased a condition of the national character. That generous and manly spirit which is the breath of intellectual life to any people was restrained and...faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognized such elements presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, picturesque, and ennobling ; but it was... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1850 - 738 pages
...of it, and the national theatre, in more than one form, becomes its strange and grotesque monument. intellectual life to any people was restrained and...faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognized such elements presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, picturesque, and ennobling ; but it was... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1857 - 758 pages
...princes so faithfully through the whole of that terrible contest ; both of them high and ennohling principles, which in Spain were more wrought into...religious faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognised such elements presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, picturesque, and ennobling;... | |
 | George Ticknor - Spanish literature - 1863 - 520 pages
...tJber Spanische Nabefore the Evangelical Union, at Berlin, in tionalitat, usw Rerlin, 1852, p. 13. Spanish submission to an unworthy despotism, and Spanish...faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognized such elements presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, poetical, and ennobling ; but it was not... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1864 - 780 pages
...contest ; both of them high and ennobling principles, which in Spain were more wrought into the populai character than they ever were in any other country....religious faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognised such elements presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, picturesque, and ennobling;... | |
 | George Ticknor - Spanish literature - 1864 - 526 pages
...is not without !• VA Huber, in a discourse delivered foundation in truth. Uber Spanische NaSpanish submission to an unworthy despotism, and Spanish bigotry,...faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognized such elements presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, poetical, and ennobling ; but it was not... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1904 - 400 pages
...establish the orthodoxy of works that were often as little connected with religion as fairy-tales, down to the colophon, supplicating pardon for any...faith and loyalty. The civilization that recognized such elements presented, no doubt, much that was brilliant, picturesque, and ennobling; but it was... | |
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