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| | §14. Edward FitzGerald. V. The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne, and Others. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part ... |
 | | For Spedding’s scholarship, FitzGerald cherished an affectionate admiration, with some regret at its devotion to a purpose with which he had no sympathy, and the series of letters to Fanny Kemble, the last of which was written less than three weeks before his death, recalls his friendship with her brother. |
| | FitzGerald regarded Calderon as too closely tied to the conventional requirements of the Spanish stage; the machinery which bound the main and secondary plots together, provided theatrical situations and introduced the inevitable gracioso with his antics and proverbial or anecdotal philosophy, creaked too audibly to please him. |
| | FitzGerald habitually concealed his own thoughts on the mysteries which perplexed Omar; and the warmth of religious enthusiasm which he infused into the somewhat formal atmosphere of El Magico Prodigioso might, considering its gratuitous copiousness, quite as reasonably as a single stanza of his Rubáiyát, be taken to express his convictions. |
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