Dierum spatia ultra nostri orbis mensuram; nox clara et extrema Britanniae parte brevis, ut finem atque initium lucis exiguo discrimine internoscas.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
Invested with the splendour of his imagination, the merest shred of fact, as in La Estrella de Sevilla , is converted into a romantic drama, living, natural, real, arresting as an experience suffered by oneself.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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