399 For example, the following:—
400 As in the following:—
401 The following satirical passage occurs in his longest epistle, which is addressed to a friend, and in which he has developed his whole turn of temper and thought:—
402 The irony might be more delicate; but it is, nevertheless, well expressed:—
403 For example:—
404 The following passage occurs in an epistle to a friend who wished to send his son to court while very young, in order that he might become early acquainted with the great world:—
405 The following sonnet, addressed to an old coquette, may serve as an example:—
406 For example, the first stanzas of an ode on the immaculate conception of the holy virgin:—
407 On one occasion Argensola thus apostrophizes Mary Magdalen:—
408 Conquista de las Islas Molucas, al Rey Felipe III. &c. (written at an earlier period than the Annals of Arragon), por el Licenciado Bartholemè Leonardo de Argensola. Madrid, 1609, in folio. The library of the University of Gottingen contains this work, and also that next noticed.
409 Primera parte, (a second part was intended to follow), de los Anales de Aragon que prosigue los de G. Zurita, &c. por el Dr. Barth. Leon. de Argensola. Zaragoza, 1630, one vol. thick fol.
410 The poetical registers in Lope de Vega’s Laurel de Apolo, in Cervantes’s Viage al Parnaso, and in other laudatory or ironical poems, are in no way available either for the historian or the critic. Accident and caprice has introduced many obscure names into these poems, and many of poetic merit are not mentioned.
411 The poetic narrative extends to thirty-seven cantos.
412 This description of the garden and palace of a magician in the wilds of America, oversteps the bounds of consistency as well as probability. The description of the magic palace deserves, however, to be quoted:—
413 Glaura thus speaks of the dangers to which her virtue was exposed through the ardour of her lover’s tenderness:—
414 Even Voltaire bears testimony to the excellence of this speech; and Voltaire was certainly a judge of rhetorical excellence, though not of poetical. The address commences thus:—
415 Velasquez and Dieze, p. 383, give numerous bibliographical notices of these works.
416 For example, in the following description of rural tranquillity:—
417 Several of Espinel’s prose works are inserted in the third volume of the Parnaso Español; and the translation of the Epistle to the Pisones, forms the commencement of the first volume of that collection.
418 For example, the following. The prevailing idea is not new; but it is followed up in the genuine spirit of sonnet composition.
419 The following is the first stanza of his cancion on the ascension of the Holy Virgin:—
420 His epistles in the satirical style are, however, so full of allusions to particular circumstances which occurred during the life of the author, that they are not easily understood. The following passage is from an epistle on the Spanish comedy.
421 The following colloquial sonnet may serve as an example:—
422 For example:—
423 One of these compositions commences in the following way:—
424 The curate in Don Quixote, during the examination of the knight’s library, says, that if these Tears had been doomed to be burnt, he himself should have shed tears. I have not seen the book in any collection.
425 For example:—
426 One of Martin’s most charming madrigals may be transcribed here:—
427 The following seems to have been vastly admired by some critics, since it has found its way into various collections:—
428 For example, the following trifle:—
429 For example:—
431 One of his canciones addressed to his country, commences in the following manner:—
432 For instance, the following sonnet:—
433 A new edition of the best poems of Francisco de Figueroa was published by Ramon Fernandez at Madrid, in 1785, in 8vo.
434 One of his Endechas commences thus:—
435 For example:—
436 The following is one of his sonnets:—
437 The collection is entitled—Flores de Poetas ilustres de España, &c. ordenada por Pedro Espinosa. Valladolid, 1605, in quarto. From this anthology has been partly selected the specimens of the works of those poets who have just been noticed. The rest of the examples are scattered through the Parnaso Español.
438 His Castilian and Portuguese poems are published under the title:—Fuente de Aganippe, o Rimas varias de Manuel de Faria y Sousa, &c. Madrid 1656, 4 vols. octavo. They are also included in his Divinas y Humanas Flores, Madrid 1624, in octavo.
439 This absurdity occurs in a gloss on an old couplet.
440 In the original this odd conceit runs in the following way:—
441 His Europa Portuguesa, (a bombastic title for Portugal Europeano) is a work which contains considerable information on the statistics of Portugal.
442 The following, which is a description of Life in Madrid, may serve as a specimen of these satirical sonnets:—
443 The following Letrilla may be taken as a specimen of Gongora’s artificial style:—