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Tercera was given to Jacome de Brujes in 1450, by Don Henry, in which year St George was discovered. Pico and Gracioso were discovered about the same time. Perhaps Fayal may actually have been first explored, as many of the inhabitants are of Flemish descent, under the command and protection of the Portuguese.
Without doubt, from all I could ascertain, it will be upward of fifty thousand pounds not a bad bit of pocket money. This still remains in his possession, but a part will be dispersed tomorrow; so if we hope to gain the whole, we must do so now." "Fifty thousand pounds, you say? Gracioso Dios! a sum worth fighting for." "Ay; we've done some hard fighting for less.
They have commonly no other burlesque part than that of the merry valet, known by the name of the Gracioso. This valet serves chiefly to parody the ideal motives from which his master acts, and this he frequently does with much wit and grace.
He was likewise informed by some of the inhabitants of the Azores, that when the wind continued long and violent from the west and north-west, the sea used to throw pine trees on the coasts of the isles of Gracioso and Fayal, in which no trees of that sort grew.
Next day we descried two vessels, one a ship and the other a caravel, to which we gave chase, on which they made with all haste for the island of Gracioso, where they got to anchor under protection of a fort; as having the wind of us we were unable to cut them off from the land, or to get up to attack them with our ships as they lay at anchor.
"Look here, Harry," I said, "if you must know it, she looks upon you as an acrobat a paid performer." "Ah!" his black eyes sparkled "the torero, the man who fights the bull, he is also an acrobat." "Yes; but she thinks you a clown! a GRACIOSO DE TEATRO there!" "Then I have make her laugh?" he said coolly. I don't think he had; but I shrugged my shoulders. "BUENO!" he said cheerfully.
For this purpose he used dialogue rather to bring out the plot than the characters, and to this end also he sacrificed dramatic probabilities and possibilities, geography, history, and a decent morality. Another element which he established in the Spanish drama, was the comic under-plot, and the witty gracioso or droll, the parody of the heroic character of the play.
DOÑA MATILDE. Verdad es que.... DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Clementina! MARQUESA. Perdona, Matilde; pero es un lance tan gracioso ... ¡ja, ja!... ¡tan inesperado! DOÑA MATILDE. Inesperado no; y acuérdate que siempre te juré que no me casaría sino a gusto mío, y con quien no tuviera nada. MARQUESA. Sí, es cierto ... también yo lo juré, si mal no me acuerdo, y ya ves cómo lo he cumplido ... ¡pobre Matilde!
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