Page 79. “The Timid Lover.”
19. Page 81. “My Village Life.”
20. Page 95. “Merits of their national dramas.”
21. Page 104. “There, says his biographer,” &c.
22. Page 113. “Juan Bautista de Arriaza.”
23. Page 145. “Described by Humboldt.”
24. Page 145. “So popular a writer as Larra.”
25. Page 160. “From the proud castled poop,” &c.
26. Page 161. “Conquerors of winds and waves.”
27. Page 163. “And Alcalà, Churruca, also ye!”
28. Page 164. “Yet fell ye not, ye generous squadrons.”
29. Page 170. “The Conde de Toreno.”
30. Page 170. “The celebrated Pacheco.”
31. Page 176. “Rights of the Basque people.”
32. Page 180. “Observation may apply to English verse.”
33. Page 181. “The Roman friend,” &c.
34. Page 183. “I saw upon the shady Thames.”
35. Page 184. “The light foot that never stirs,” &c.
36. Page 216. “His biographer, Pastor Diaz,” &c.
37. Page 216. “The advantages he enjoyed there.”
38. Page 222. “Pedro, surnamed the Cruel.”
39. Page 227. “Yet, ah! those lovely bowers along,” &c.
40. Page 233. “Darting round fierce looks,” &c.
41. Page 234. “The crackling of his arms and knees.”
43. Page 259. “Meagre soup bouillie.”
44. Page 260. “Whene’er Don Juan,” &c.
45. Page 269. “The celebrated Lista.”
46. Page 271. “Twelve out of the nineteen stanzas.”
47. Page 272. “Part of his first volume is taken up with imitations.”
49. Page 282. “Milton elevated all beyond.”
50. Page 305. “Josè de Espronceda.”
51. Page 315. “Sail on, my swift one, never fear.”
52. Page 323. “Josè Zorrilla.”
53. Page 347. “The Tower of Munion.”
PART I.
I.
An able and distinguished writer in the Madrid Review has observed, that if the question were asked as to which is the first great name in modern Spanish literature, the answer must unquestionably be—Jovellanos. It seems, therefore, only a just deference to his merits, though it is but a fortuitous coincidence in the order of dates, that we have to place his name first in the series of modern Spanish poets. It is, however, to his State Papers and his writings on Political Economy that he principally owes his reputation; though it is a proud consideration for Spanish literature, that, as regards him, as well as Martinez de la Rosa and the Duke de Rivas, she has to place the names of eminent statesmen among her principal poets.
Jovellanos was born the 5th of January, 1744, at Gijon, a town in the Asturias, of which his father was Regidor or one of the chief Magistrates. His family connections were of the class called Nobles, answering to the Noblesse of France, and
