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Portillo y Rojas Rafael
In Argentina, Pastor Obligado (traditions), José Miró (Julian Martel), Manuel T. Podestá, Emma B. de la Barra (fiction); in Chile, Miguel Luis Amunátegui, Enrique del Solar (traditions), Alberto Blest Gana, Luis Orrego Luco, Zorobabel Rodríguez (fiction); in Perú, Ricardo Palma (traditions); in Mexico, José María Roa Bárcena, Justo Sierra (traditions), Victoriano Salado Álvarez, Ireneo Paz, José Portillo y Rojas, Rafael Delgado; in Ecuador, Eduardo and Juan de León Mera; in Guatemala, José de Batres y Montufar (traditions) and José Milla (fiction); in Costa Rica, Fernández Guardia and Aquiles Echeverría; in Venezuela, Rufino Blanco Fombona.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

pity your right reason
Nay the same black boulder-stones of these Paris Prisons have seen Prison-massacres before now; men massacring countrymen, Burgundies massacring Armagnacs, whom they had suddenly imprisoned, till as now there are piled heaps of carcasses, and the streets ran red;—the Mayor Petion of the time speaking the austere language of the law, and answered by the Killers, in old French ( it is some four hundred years old ): "Maugre bieu, Sire,—Sir, God's malison on your justice, your pity, your right reason.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

pray you rise rise
Arise, you shall not kneele: I pray you rise, rise Egypt Cleo.
— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare


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