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... tion of art , —an interpretation that favored sobriety of con- ception , refuge in the ivory tower of lofty seclusion , an objective attitude toward life . It was not so much a pre- conceived program as a common refutation that brought ...
... tion of art , —an interpretation that favored sobriety of con- ception , refuge in the ivory tower of lofty seclusion , an objective attitude toward life . It was not so much a pre- conceived program as a common refutation that brought ...
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... tion . Although the date 1888 ( during which year Rubén Darío's volume of prose and poetry called Azul appeared ) has been taken as the starting point of the Modernist era , the movement had , like all great historical events , cast its ...
... tion . Although the date 1888 ( during which year Rubén Darío's volume of prose and poetry called Azul appeared ) has been taken as the starting point of the Modernist era , the movement had , like all great historical events , cast its ...
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... tion , determined the most intense literary activity , and most fertile in re- sults , that South America has ever known . Through them the language acquired a force , an accent , a precision and freshness which transformed it ...
... tion , determined the most intense literary activity , and most fertile in re- sults , that South America has ever known . Through them the language acquired a force , an accent , a precision and freshness which transformed it ...
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... tion that he proffers , with the parting encouragement that roses , like loves , die young . We have sampled the whimsical , the elegiac and the tenderly melancholy strains in our poet ; let us approach him in these moods where he seems ...
... tion that he proffers , with the parting encouragement that roses , like loves , die young . We have sampled the whimsical , the elegiac and the tenderly melancholy strains in our poet ; let us approach him in these moods where he seems ...
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... in what we originate . If lit- terary influence consisted of mere imitation , art would be an endless mirroring of primitive models ; even in imita- tion there is selection of a sort , and that 56 STUDIES IN SPANISH - AMERICAN LITERATURE.
... in what we originate . If lit- terary influence consisted of mere imitation , art would be an endless mirroring of primitive models ; even in imita- tion there is selection of a sort , and that 56 STUDIES IN SPANISH - AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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Page 227 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 93 - The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done, is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 163 - ¡Juventud, divino tesoro; ya te vas para no volver ! . . . Cuando quiero llorar, no lloro, ya veces lloro sin querer...
Page 9 - Car nous voulons la Nuance encor, Pas la couleur, rien que la nuance!
Page 64 - Una noche, una noche toda llena de murmullos, de perfumes y de músicas de alas; una noche en que ardían en la sombra nupcial y húmeda las luciérnagas fantásticas, a mi lado lentamente, contra mí ceñida toda, muda y pálida, como si un presentimiento de amarguras infinitas...
Page 182 - ... as the case may be (if, indeed, I do not transcend the creature), but which, anyhow, is all that can ever come within my knowledge of his soul. The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Page 158 - ÍNCLITAS razas ubérrimas, sangre de Hispania fecunda, espíritus fraternos, luminosas almas, ¡salve! Porque llega el momento en que habrán de cantar nuevos himnos lenguas de gloria. Un vasto rumor llena los ámbitos; mágicas ondas de vida van renaciendo de pronto...
Page 167 - Un gran vuelo de cuervos mancha el azul celeste. Un soplo milenario trae amagos de peste. Se asesinan los hombres en el extremo Este. ¿Ha nacido el apocalíptico Anticristo? Se han sabido presagios y prodigios se han visto y parece inminente el retorno de Cristo.
Page 30 - Mi duquesita, la que me adora, No tiene humos de gran señora: Es la griseta de Paul de Kock. No baila Boston, y desconoce De las carreras el alto goce, Y los placeres del five o'clock.
Page 154 - En mi jardín se vio una estatua bella; se juzgó mármol y era carne viva; un alma joven habitaba en ella, sentimental, sensible, sensitiva.