Chapter XXXIX: Didactic Prose

Proverbs 169
Oldest 170
Marquis of Santillana 170
Garay, Valles, Nuñez 171
Mal Lara, Palmireno 172
Oudin, Sorapan, Cejudo 172
Juan de Yriarte 173
Great Number of Proverbs 173
Didactic Prose 174
Antonio de Torquemada 174
Christóval de Acosta 175
Luis de Granada 176
Juan de la Cruz 178
Santa Teresa 179
School of Spiritualists 180
Malon de Chaide 180
Agustin de Roxas 181
Suarez de Figueroa 183
Marquez, Vera y Zuñiga 184
Fernandez de Navarrete 184
Saavedra Faxardo 185
Quevedo, Antonio de Vega 186
Nieremberg, Benavente 186
Guzman, Dantisco 187
Andrada, Villalobos 188
Aleman, Faria y Sousa 188
Francisco de Andrade 189
Cultismo in Spanish Prose 190
Paravicino 191
Baltazar Gracian 191
Cultismo prevails 194
Juan de Zabaleta 194
Lozano, Heredia, Ramirez 195
Small Success of Didactic Prose 196

CHAPTER XL.

CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE PERIOD.

Decay of the Spanish Character 198
Charles the Fifth, Philip the Second 199
Philip the Third 200
Philip the Fourth 201
Charles the Second 203
Degradation of the Country 203
Religion sinks into Bigotry 204
Loyalty sinks into Servility 207
Literature fails with Character 209

THIRD PERIOD.

THE LITERATURE THAT EXISTED IN SPAIN BETWEEN THE ACCESSION
OF THE BOURBON FAMILY AND THE INVASION OF BONAPARTE; OR
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE EARLY
PART OF THE NINETEENTH.