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  • In Coatepec, the "Hotel San Jeronimo" is very nice, as well as the "Posada Coatepec" (very upscale) and the "Mesón de Coatepec" del Grupo Prado.

    Hotel recommendations for Coatepec or Xico? 2007

  • In Coatepec, the "Hotel San Jeronimo" is very nice, as well as the "Posada Coatepec" (very upscale) and the "Mesón de Coatepec" del Grupo Prado.

    Hotel recommendations for Coatepec or Xico? 2007

  • The Tutors did like well of her advice, not doubting but it would take answerable effect: and therefore, calling Jeronimo into a private Parlor, one of them began in this manner.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Sighiero, who by his wife had one onely Sonne, called Jeronimo; and within a short while after his birth, Leonardo being very sicke, and having setled all his affaires in good order; departed out of this wretched life to a better.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Thomas Kyd was the author of a tragedy entitled Jeronimo, which for the absurd horrors of its plot, and the mingled puerility and bombast of its language, was a source of perpetual ridicule to rival poets, while from a certain wild pathos combined with its imposing grandiloquence it was long a favorite with the people.

    Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

  • On one or two points, as, for instance, in the matter of Shakespeare's senior contemporaries, we should have preferred a somewhat larger outlay of the author's learned and well-practised strength; while, again, in reference to the old plays of "Jeronimo" and "The Spanish Tragedy," he might well have used more economy of strength, as the matter is neither interesting in itself nor helpful to his purpose.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

  • The two "Jeronimo" or "Hieronimo" plays were, as has been said, extremely popular, and it is positively known that Jonson himself, and probably others, were employed from time to time to freshen them up; with the consequence that the exact authorship of particular passages is somewhat problematical.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • If Kyd wrote "Jeronimo," of which there is no satisfactory proof, and if Shakspere wrote "Titus," "much in the manner of Kyd," which we venture to think more doubtful than the authorship of "Jeronimo," then

    The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

  • Ulrici maintains that "Jeronimo" itself may be treated as a play in three parts connected only externally: first, the war between Portugal and Spain; second, the life and death of Don Andrea, and third the acts of Jeronimo, who is, however, only a subordinate character.

    The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

  • With only a maiden race on his resume "Jeronimo" had trouble in the backstretch but managed to take third.

    NewsNet5.com - Local News 2009

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