Two years afterwards they went to Spain, a country that must have possessed a peculiar interest for both; for in 1846 Lewes had published a charming, if one-sided, little book on 'The Spanish Drama,' with especial reference to Lope de Vega and calderon; and in 1864, only a year after the appearance of 'Romola,' George Eliot produced the first draught of 'The Spanish Gypsy.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
calderon affirmed that the property and life of a citizen did not belong to himself but to the king.
"The Shadow of the Cathedral"
Vicente Blasco Ibañez
The best of them, calderon, is so intensely Spanish and Romish, as to be, in comparison with the breadth and universality of his eminent compeers above named, almost provincial.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert