the
Inquisition
resumed its activity; and the Jesuits returned to
Spain.
Spain.
Byron
]
[304] [For the "fabulous sketches" of the Zegri and Abencerrages, rival
Moorish tribes, whose quarrels, at the close of the fifteenth century,
deluged Granada with blood, see the _Civil Wars of Granada_, a prose
fiction, interspersed with ballads, by Gines Perez de Hita, published in
1595. An opera, _Les Abencerages_, by Cherubini, was performed in Paris
in 1813. Chateaubriand's _Les Aventures du dernier Abencerrage_ was not
published till 1826. ]
[ee] _And yet have left worse enemies than they_. --[MS. erased. ]
[305] [Ferdinand VII. returned to Madrid in March, 1814. "No sooner was
he established on his throne . . . than he set himself to restore the old
absolutism with its worst abuses. The nobles recovered their privileges
. . .
the Inquisition resumed its activity; and the Jesuits returned to
Spain. . . . A _camarilla_ of worthless courtiers and priests conducted the
government, and urged the king to fresh acts of revolutionary violence.
For six years Spain groaned under a royalist 'reign of
terror. '"--_Encycl. Brit. _, art. "Spain," vol. 22, p. 345. ]
[ef] _As rose on his remorseless ear the cry_. --[MS. erased. ]
[eg] {559} _The re-awakened virtue_----.
[304] [For the "fabulous sketches" of the Zegri and Abencerrages, rival
Moorish tribes, whose quarrels, at the close of the fifteenth century,
deluged Granada with blood, see the _Civil Wars of Granada_, a prose
fiction, interspersed with ballads, by Gines Perez de Hita, published in
1595. An opera, _Les Abencerages_, by Cherubini, was performed in Paris
in 1813. Chateaubriand's _Les Aventures du dernier Abencerrage_ was not
published till 1826. ]
[ee] _And yet have left worse enemies than they_. --[MS. erased. ]
[305] [Ferdinand VII. returned to Madrid in March, 1814. "No sooner was
he established on his throne . . . than he set himself to restore the old
absolutism with its worst abuses. The nobles recovered their privileges
. . .
the Inquisition resumed its activity; and the Jesuits returned to
Spain. . . . A _camarilla_ of worthless courtiers and priests conducted the
government, and urged the king to fresh acts of revolutionary violence.
For six years Spain groaned under a royalist 'reign of
terror. '"--_Encycl. Brit. _, art. "Spain," vol. 22, p. 345. ]
[ef] _As rose on his remorseless ear the cry_. --[MS. erased. ]
[eg] {559} _The re-awakened virtue_----.
