ict of Badajoz (Estremadura). He studied law at
Salamanca, where he was guided in letters by Cadalso. In
1780 he won a prize offered by the Academy for page 267
the best eclogue. He then accepted a professorship at
Salamanca offered him by Jovellanos. Literary success led
him to petition a position under the government which,
involving as it did loss of independence, proved fatal
to his character. He filled honorably important judicial
posts in Saragossa and Valladolid, but court intrigue
and the caprices of Godoy brought him many trials and
undeserved punishments. In 1808 he accepted a position
under the French, and nearly lost his life from popular
indignation. Later his vacillations were pitiful: he wrote
spirited poems now for the French and now against them.
When they were finally expelled in 1813, he left the
country with them and died in poverty and sorrow in
Montpellier.

Most of his poems are in vol. 63 of the _Bibl. de
Aut. Esp._; others have been published in the _Revue
hispanique_, vols. I. and IV. Cf. his Life by Quintana
in _Bibl. de Aut. Esp._, vol. 19; E. Merimee,
_Melendez Valdes_, in _Revue hispanique_, I, 166-195;
_Introduction_, p. xxx.

=44.=--5. =Muy mas=: this use of _muy_ is not uncommon in
the older classics, but the usual expression now is _mucho
mas_.

28. =benigna=: see note, p. 22, l. 6.

=46.=--Manuel Jose Quintana (1772-1857) was born in
Madrid. He went to school in Cordova and later studied law
at Salamanca. He fled from Madrid upon the coming of the
French. In the reign of Ferdinand VII he was for a time
confined in the Bastile of Pamplona on account of his
liberal ideas. After the liberal triumph of 1834 he held
various public offices, including that of Director General
of Public Instruction. In 1855 he was publicly crowned in
the Palace of the Senate.

See _Introduction_, p. xxxii; Ticknor, III, 332-334;
Blanco Garcia, _La literatura espanola en el siglo XIX_,
2d ed., Madrid, 1899, I, 1-13; Menendez y Pelayo, _D.
Manuel Jose Quintana_, _La poesia lirica al page 268
principiar el siglo XIX_, Madrid, 1887; E. Pineyro, _M.-J.
Quintana_, Chartres, 1892; Juan Valera, _Florilegio de
poesias castellanas_, Madrid, 1903, V, 32-38. His works
are in vols. 19 and 67 of _Bibl. de Aut. Esp._

The Spanish people, goaded by the subservience of Charles
IV and his prime minister and favorite, Godoy, to the
French, rose in March, 1808, swept away Godoy, f