"Lope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... applied to Rueckert's poems the famous sentence which a Spaniard pronounced about Lope de Vega, that no poet wrote so many good plays, but none also so ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy
... sympathetic friend and patron in the Abbe de Lyonne, who not only bestowed upon him a pension of about L125, but also gave him the use of his library. The first results of this favour were adaptations of two plays from Rojas and Lope de Vega, which appeared some time during the first two or three years of the eighteenth century. Le Sage's reputation as a playwright and as a novelist rests, oddly enough, in each case on one work. As the author of "Tuscaret," produced in 1709, he contributed to the stage ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various
... Rosinante cannot go,' and then warned him not to set Providence at defiance. Still Sancho was much too frightened by the infernal clatter to relax his hold of the knight's saddle. For some time he strove to beguile his own fears with a very long story about the goatherd Lope Ruiz, who was in love with the shepherdess Torralva - 'a jolly, strapping wench, a little scornful, and somewhat masculine.' Now, whether owing to the cold of the morning, which was at hand, or ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... and came bellowing up from the far side of the huddle like a bull challenging to combat from across a meadow. Big Medicine did not know what it was all about, but he scented battle, and that was sufficient. Cal Emmett and Weary, equally ignorant of the cause, started at a lope toward the ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... and for a moment seemed quite alone. Then from out the shadows, with a little half run, half lope, a strange figure of man ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
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