[[8]] "My God, make me able to love!"
[[9]] "Mountain on whose summit—human genius nests."
[[10]] "Which on the map of astonished Europe—traced frontiers and suppressed deserts,—and which, weary perhaps with receiving—the homage of living kings,—came at length to demand afar—the homage of dead kings."
[[11]] "The voice of thunder of the great Hebrew prophet,—the chord of bitter tones—of Juvenal—and the rumour of the songs—of the old Ghibelline."
[[12]] "Brother to the eagles of the Caucasus—who fanned piously with their wings the bleeding face of Prometheus."
[[13]] Decadentismo y americanismo, in El castillo de Elsinor. Caracas 1902.
[[14]] "There is not in the world a prettier woman!—Foot of an Andalusian, mouth of fruit—Sparkling wit of Veuve Cliquot—Waist of wasp, skin like a bird's wing—The roguish eyes of a schoolgirl—Such the eyes of Louise Theo."
[[15]] "If it is a punishment, what sin—have we without knowing committed?—If it is a reward, how gained?—Without having asked it,—say, why do we live?"
[[16]] "What whiter than the candid lily?—What purer than the mystic wax?—What more chaste than the tender orange-blossom?"
[[17]] See the study of these innovations in Horas de estudio, by P. Henriquez Ureña, p. 118 et seq. Paris, Ollendorff.