[381] Obras de Cienfuegos, Madrid, 1798, 2 tom. 12mo;—the only edition published by himself.
[382] Vicente Garcia de la Huerta was born in 1734, and died in 1787. A notice of his life, which was not without literary and social success,—though much disturbed by a period of exile and disgrace,—is to be found in the Semanario Pintoresco, (1842, p. 305,) and some intimation of the various literary quarrels in which he was engaged with his contemporaries may be seen in the next note. His general character is not ill summed up in the following epitaph on him, said to have been written by Yriarte, one of his opponents, which should be read, recollecting that Saragossa was famous for a hospital for the insane,—the mad-house that figures so largely in Avellaneda’s “Don Quixote.”
De juicio sí; mas no de ingenio escaso,
Aqui Huerta el audaz descanso goza;
Deja un puesto vacante en el Parnaso,
Y una jaula vacia en Zaragoza.
In judgment,—yes,—but not in genius weak,
Here fierce Huerta tranquil sleeps and well;
A vacant post upon Parnassus leaves,
In Saragossa, too, an empty cell.