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When the Tauchnitz editions have been exhausted, and when the stranger has mastered Cervantes and Lope de Vega, Espronceda, Larra, and Rivas, there is always that book which Dr. Johnson loved, the street, or that lighter literature which Moore sings, "woman's looks," to fall back upon.
Elze, ranks the author of Harold and Juan among the four greatest English poets, and claims for him the intellectual parentage of Lamartine and Musset in France, of Espronceda in Spain, of Puschkin in Russia, with some modifications, of Heine in Germany, of Berchet and others in Italy.
But what can an individual soul in a world of matter actually be? Is it the rock or the mountain that is the individual? Is it the tree? And nevertheless the fact always remains that spirit and matter are at strife. This is the thought that Espronceda expressed when he wrote: Aquí, para vivir en santa calma, o sobra la materia, o sobra el alma.
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