The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.


Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (ed. 1835)


The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their...

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their...

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their...

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their...