Note T — Chapter VI · GENERAL OBSERVATIONS; RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF GOOD TASTE.
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen translation
Three odes of Herrera, and some fragments little interesting, are no more than an exception of this general position. Neither the Gulf of Lepanto, nor the Carolea, nor the Austriada, approach at all near to the dignity and importance of their subjects. Even in the Araucana itself, if there is any thing well painted, it is not the Spaniards, but the Indians.