Rosinante to the Road AgainGeorge H. Doran Company, 1922 - 237 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Almorox America Andalusia arette arriero Baroja Basque Blasco Ibáñez blue bread brown café Castile Castilian castizo Catalan century church coffee cold Cordova cried dancing dark Don Alonso Don Antonio Don Juan Tenorio Don Quixote donkey earth El Greco eyes face feet flame flamenco flowers gesture Giner goblin driver green grey horse hand head hills Iberian Illescas JOHN DOS PASSOS Jorge Manrique Juan land laughed lean light live look Lyaeus Madrid Maragall Miguel de Unamuno moon Motril mountains mules night novels padrón peasants phrases Pío Baroja plain poet rhythm Ríos road round shadow shawl shoulders shouted sing sleep smell Soria soul Spain Spaniards Spanish stood street suddenly talking Telemachus theatre things thought tion Toledo town tree turned Unamuno Valencia Vida village voice walked waved wind window wine women yellow
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Página 89 - He has not undergone the discipline, which can only come from common slavery in the industrial machine, necessary for a builder. His slavery has been an isolated slavery which has unfitted him forever from becoming truly part of a community. He can use the vast power of knowledge which training has given him only in one way. His great mission is to put the acid test to existing institutions, and to strip the veils off them.
Página 190 - El viento de Madrid es tan sutil que mata a un hombre y no apaga un candil.
Página 6 - ... away the music; then he recited, pronouncing the words haltingly: Recuerde el alma dormida, avive el seso y despierte contemplando como se pasa la vida, como se viene la muerte tan callando: cuan presto se va el placer, como despues de acordado da dolor ; como a nuestro parecer cualquier tiempo...
Página 24 - Not on your life, in America they don't do anything except work and rest so's to get ready to work again. That's no life for a man. People don't enjoy themselves there.
Página 146 - Two slow oxen plough on a hillside early in autumn, and between the black heads bent down under the weight of the yoke, hangs and sways a basket of reeds, a child's cradle; And behind the yoke stride a man who leans towards the earth and a woman who, into the open furrows, throws the seed. Under a cloud of carmine and flame, in the liquid green gold of the setting, their shadows grow monstrous.
Página 81 - That is Baroja's world: dismal, ironic, the streets of towns where industrial life sits heavy on the neck of a race as little adapted to it as any in Europe. No one has ever described better the shaggy badlands and cabbage-patches round the edges of a city, where the debris of civilization piles up ramshackle suburbs in which starve and scheme all manner of human detritus.
Página 223 - ... similar things said of St. Augustine, the great African, the fiery soul that overflowed in waves of rhetoric, in phraseological contortions, in antitheses, in paradoxes and conceits. St. Augustine was at once a Gongorist and Conceptist. Which leads me to believe that Gongorism and Conceptism are the natural forms of passion and vehemence. The great African, the great ancient African! Here you have an expression, ancient African, which can be opposed to modern European, and which is at least of...
Página 146 - II A frail sound of a tunic trailing across the infertile earth, and the sonorous weeping of the old bells. The dying embers of the horizon smoke. White ancestral ghosts go lighting the stars. — Open the balcony-window. The hour of illusion draws near . . . The afternoon has gone to sleep and the bells dream.
Página 96 - This ephemeral character of my work does not displease me. We are men of the day, people in love with the passing moment...
Página 133 - Aquí está don Juan Tenorio y no hay hombre para él. Desde la princesa altiva a la que pesca en ruin barca, no hay hembra a quien no suscriba y cualquier empresa abarca si en oro o valor estriba.
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Transition in Spain: From Franco to Democracy Víctor Alba No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1978 |