...supplicating pardon for any unconscious neglect of the authority of the Church, or any too free use of classic mythology, we are continually oppressed with painful...cramped and crippled by the chains it had so long worn.' l i Ticknor, History of Spanish Literature, vol. ip 430. Thus did the Catholic Eeaction, which, with...

...establish the orthodoxy of works that were often as little connected with religion as fairy-tales, down to the colophon, supplicating pardon for any...literature, we suppose they were produced by the direct action either of the Inquisition or of the civil govern.merit of the country, compressing, as if with...

...and with much less luxuriant results." Of the books published in this period, Ticknor adds: they " bore everywhere marks of the subjection to which the...cramped and crippled by the chains it had so long worn."1 These effects were not due solely to the action of the Inquisition or of the despotic civil...

...authority of the Church or for any too free use of classical mythology, we are continually impressed with painful proofs, not only how completely the human...how grievously it had become cramped and crippled by what it had so long borne.1 Of the few dramatic pieces written in the earlier part of the reign of...

...form, becomes its strange and grotesque monument. " Of course, the body of Spanish poetry and eloquent prose produced during this interval — the earlier...literature, we suppose they were produced by the direct action either of the Inquisition or of the civil government of the country, compressing, as if with...

...generous and manly spirit which is the breath of 34 Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature. [Jan. intellectual life to any people was restrained and...literature, we suppose they were produced by the direct action either of the Inquisition or of the civil government of the country, compressing, as if with...