Goya, an account of his life and worksCalvert, Albert Frederick
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Goya, an account of his life and works
Calvert, Albert Frederick
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828
35. No se puede saber por qué.
‘No one knows why.’ Eight men garrotted with labels round their necks.
36. Tampóco.
‘Neither.’ French soldier watches a man hanging from a tree.
37. Esto es peor.
‘This is worse.’ Mutilated corpse impaled on a tree.
38. Barbaros!
‘Barbarians!’ Execution of a prisoner.
39. Grande hazaña--Con muertos!
‘Great prowess--With the dead!’ Three horribly mutilated corpses.
40. Algun partido saca.
‘He turns it to account.’ Man fighting a wild beast.
41. Escapan entre las llamas.
‘They escape through the flames.’
42. Todo va revuelto.
‘Everything in confusion.’ Friars fly hither and thither.
43. Tambien esto.
‘These also.’ Similar subject.
44. Yo lo ví.
‘I saw it.’ People flying from a village. Mother dragging away her
children.
45. Y esto tambien.
‘And this also.’ Similar subject.
46. Esto malo.
‘This is bad.’ Soldiers slaughtering monks.
47. Así sucedió.
‘Thus it happened.’ Soldiers, watched by a monk, despoiling a church.
48. Cruel lástima!
‘Cruel misfortune!’ A man imploring succour near a heap of slain.
49. Caridad de una muger.
‘A woman’s charity.’ Women tending the wounded.
50. Madre infeliz.
‘Unhappy mother!’ Child, weeping, beholds its mother carried off by
soldiers.
51. Gracias á la almorta.
‘Thanks to the blue vetch.’ Woman distributing grain to the afflicted.
52. No llegan á tiempo.
‘Too late.’ Women arrive too late to help a companion.
53. Espiró sin remedio.
‘He died without help.’ Group of persons round a corpse.
54. Clamores en vano.
‘No help.’ Starving people vainly beseech a French dragoon for help.
55. Lo peor es pedir.
‘To beg is the worst of all.’ Starving men vainly appeal for help to a
French lady.
56. Al cementerio!
‘To the cemetery.’ Corpse being carried to the graveyard.
57. Sanos y enfermos.
‘The quick and the dead.’ The hale and the sick both taking refuge in a
vault.
58. No hay que dar voces.
‘Of no use to cry.’ Group of starving and afflicted persons.
59. De qué sirve una taza?
‘Of what use is one cup?’ Woman carrying a cupful of nourishment to a
group of starving women.
60. No hay quien los socorra.
‘There is nobody to help them.’ Three men prostrate, another standing;
all feel the approach of death.
61. Si son de otro linaje?
‘Are they of another race?’ Frenchmen remain indifferent to the appeal
of some starving wretches.
62. Las camas de la muerte.
‘The deathbeds.’ Women weeping over a heap of slain.
63. Muertos recogidos.
‘The dead collected.’ A heap of slain.
64. Carretadas al cementerio.
‘Cart-loads for the cemetery.’ Carts being loaded with corpses.
65. Qué alboroto es este?
‘What means this tumult?’ A French officer writes at a table. People
taking to flight.
66. Extraña devocion.
‘Strange devotion.’ People adoring relics carried on the back of an ass.
67. Esta no lo es menos.
‘This is not less so.’ Procession of the image of Our Lady of Sorrows.
68. Qué locura!
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