This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... Gefuhle der Menschen springen an's Licht; Himmel und Erde strahlen in symbolischer Verklarung. Auch abgesehen von dem tiefen inneren Gehalt dieser Dichtungen, muss der Glanz in der Ausfuhrung des Einzelnen entzucken. Vielleicht in keinem ihrer anderen Werke haben die spanischen Dichter den poetischen Reichthum, uber den sie, wie sonst Niemand, zu gebieten hatten, so concentrirt wie hier. Es ist ein Farbenschmelz ein Bluthenduft und ein Zauber des entzuckendsten Wohllauts, der alle Sinne berauscht.'--Compare vol. iii. pp. 252-256. creation served man in the time of his innocence, but turns upon him directly he has sinned; rebels against ' him, because he has rebelled against his Lord; and 1.will only return to its obedience, when he has returned to his own; which same is a very favourite thought with Augustine. Thus in more than one of these Mysteries, Human Nature appears as a royal Princess, all nature, represented, it may be, by the Four Seasons, or by the Four Elements, doing her willing service, and rendering to her freely, so long as she continues in her innocence and first state of good, homage and obedience; laying at her feet all the choicest offerings that they have. So soon, however, as she has transgressed the commandment, they all rise up against her; or, attempting to console her, prove miserable comforters, only afliicting the more. This is very V sublimely brought out in T/ze Poison and the Antidote, l in Perseus and Andromeda, in T/ze jllilitary Orders, and often elsewhere. I, ' l The manner in which Calderon uses the Greek ' ( Kfnythology is exceedingly interesting. He was gifted, with an eye singularly open for the true religious ele' l ment which, however overlaid...