Lozano, Ce dee, Los reyes nvevos de Toledo. (Continued 1)
"From internal evidence, it was written at the end of the reign of Philip the Fourth, when Spanish prose had lost much of its purity and dignity; bu Lozano, though not free from the affectations of his age, wrote so much more simply than his con- | temporaries generally did, and his story, though little indebted to his own invention,was yet found so attractive, that, in about half a century,
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