MARIANO JOSE DE See also:

• MARIANO JOSE DE LARRA (1809-1837)

LARRA (1809-1837)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish satirist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MADRID

Madrid in 1809 . His See also:

• FATHER

father served as a regimental See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor in the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, and was compelled to leave the See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

Peninsula with his See also:

• FAMILY

family in 1812 . In 1817 See also:

• LARRA, MARIANO JOSE DE (1809-1837)

Larra returned to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, knowing less Spanish than French . His nature was disorderly, his See also:

• EDUCATION

education was imperfect, and, after futile attempts to obtain a degree in See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine or See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, he made an imprudent See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty, See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke with his relatives and became a journalist . On the 27th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1831 he produced his first See also:

• PLAY

play, No mds mostrador, based on two pieces by See also:

• SCRIBE, AUGUSTIN EUGENE (1791-1860, French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of December 1791. His father was a silk merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the bar. But, having a real gift for the theatre, a gift which unfortunately

Scribe and Dieulafoy . Though wanting in originality, it is brilliantly written, and held the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage for many years . On the 24th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1834 he produced Macias, a play based on his own See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical novel, El Doncel de See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don Enrique el Doliente (1834) . The See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama and novel are interesting as experiments, but Larra was essentially a journalist, and the increased See also:

• LIBERTY (Lat. libertas, from liber, free)

liberty of the See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press after the See also:

• DEATH

death of See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

Ferdinand VII. gave his See also:

• CAUSTIC (Gr. rcavvraubs, burning)

caustic See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent an ampler See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field . He was already famous under the pseudonyms of " Juan See also:

• PEREZ, ANTONIO (c. 1540-1611)

Perez de Mungufa " and " See also:

• FIGARO

Figaro " which he used in El Pobrecito Hablador and La Revista Espanola respectively . Madrid laughed at his grim See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour; ministers feared his vitriolic See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen and courted him assiduously; he was elected as See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy for See also:

• AVILA
• AVILA (anc. Abula or Avela)
• AVILA, GIL GONZALEZ DE (c. 1577-1658)

Avila, and a See also:

• GREAT

great career seemed to See also:

• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie before him . But the era of military pronunciamientos ruined his See also:

• PERSONAL

personal prospects and patriotic plans . His See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing took on a more sombre tinge; domestic troubles increased his See also:

• PESSIMISM (from Lat. pessimus, worst)

pessimism, and, in consequence of a disastrous love-affair, he committed See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide on the 13th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1837 .

Larra lived See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long enough to prove himself the greatest See also:

• PROSE

prose-writer that Spain can boast during the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . He wrote at great See also:

• SPEED, JOHN (1552–1629)

speed with the See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant fear of the See also:

• CENSOR (from Lat. censere, assess, estimate; in Gr. rt s ris)

censor before his eyes, but no sign of haste is discernible in his See also:

• WORK

work, and the dexterity with which he aims his venomous shafts is amazing . His See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• INSTINCT

instinct, his abundance of ideas and his forcible, See also:

• MORDANT

mordant See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style would have given him a foremost position at any See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time and in any See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country; in Spain, and in his own See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, they placed him beyond all rivalry . (J .