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Excerpt from Studies in Portuguese Literature
It may be that the Portuguese genius has but little claim to originality. It willingly looks abroad, and delights in novelties and changes. Even mutable Gothic architecture, for instance, was too rigid for the taste of the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, and they loaded it with Manueline additions. They assimi late quickly, and, once the impulse given from abroad, they clothe their borrowings in native garb. Thus beneath the alternating in?uence of France and Italy and Spain, and, more recently, of Germany and England, Portuguese poets have shown that they possess a genuine gift of song and a character of their own. Yet something was lost if much was gained when the Portuguese writers of the sixteenth century turned again to imitate foreign models, and the savour of verdade. N50 aporfieis. Perguntai pouco. Jugay menos. Segui os bons obedecey aos mayores. (g0 with Our Lord. Ever remember Him and who you are. Speak the truth. Be not stiff-necked. Ask few questions. Gamble even less. Follow the good; obey your elders.) His celebrated Guerra de Catalurca has recently been republished by the Real Academia Espafiola from the first edition (lisbon, with intro duction and notes by D. Jacinto Octavio Picon. Madrid, 1912. And his Life, written by Mr. Edgar Prestage, is to appear shortly.
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