Excerpt from The Great Galeoto Folly, or Saintliness: Two Plays Done From the Verse of Jos??? Echegaray Into English Prose by Hannah Lynch This fatal facility is one of the drawbacks of Spanish talent. The race writes without difficulty, which per haps is the reason that it writes' without finish or distinction. Add to which in adopting French roman ticism, upon which wave it was irresistibly carried, itdid but accommodate the adoption of the natural bent of its own still mediaeval nature. For modern Spanish romanticism ...
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Excerpt from The Great Galeoto Folly, or Saintliness: Two Plays Done From the Verse of Jos??? Echegaray Into English Prose by Hannah Lynch This fatal facility is one of the drawbacks of Spanish talent. The race writes without difficulty, which per haps is the reason that it writes' without finish or distinction. Add to which in adopting French roman ticism, upon which wave it was irresistibly carried, itdid but accommodate the adoption of the natural bent of its own still mediaeval nature. For modern Spanish romanticism belongs more probably to the Sixteenth than to the nineteenth century. It is interesting to note the rebound with which Victor Hugo's bell cast this semi-civilised and dreaming people back into their own appropriate century. They prate today in Madrid glibly enough of English improvements, clubs, elec tricity, French vaudevilles, and all the pernicious refine ments of our modern civilisation. But these elements are extraneous, a sort of diverting masquerade in their daily life. At heart they are purely medimval. In all the great moments on and off the stage, they forget the silk hat and coat of civilisation, and walk and talk as if a sword still absurdly cocked the cloak of romance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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