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Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore.'"] [302] {557}[An account of these Russian intrigues in Greece is contained in Thomas Gordon's _History of the Greek Revolution_, 1832, i. 194-204.] [eb] {558} _Of Incas known but as a cloud_.--[MS. erased.] [ec] _Not now the Roman or the Punic horde_.--[MS.] [ed] ----_abhorrent of them both_.--[MS.] [303] [Pelayo, said to be the son of Favila, Duke of Cantabria, was elected king by the Christians of the Asturias in 718, and defeated the Arab generals Suleyman and Manurza. He died A.D. 737.] [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_----.--[MS. erased.] [eh] ----_is on the shore_.--[MS. erased.] [306] "'St. Jago and close Spain!' the old Spanish war-cry." ["Santiago y serra Espana."] [ei] _The wild Guerilla on Morena_----.--[MS. erased] [ej] _Of eagle-eyed_----.--[MS. erased.] [307] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto I. stanzas liv.-lvi., _Poetical Works_, i. 57, 58, 91, 92 (note II). The "man" was Tio Jorge (Jorge Ibort), _vide ibid._, p. 94.] [308] {560} The Arragonians are peculiarly dexterous in the use of this weapon, and displayed it particularly in former French wars. [309] [_Vide ante_, the Introduction to the _Age of Bronze_, pp, 537-540.] [310] [Patrick Henry, born May 29, 1736, died June 6, 1799, was one of the l
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