The Alhambra . :0 evidence of its falsity ; the manners and customs of the floorsbeing extravagantly misrepresented in it, and scenes depictedtotally incompatible with their habits and their faith, and whichnever could have been recorded by a Mohammedan writer. ;0: THE AIJIAMBRA I confess there seems to me something ahiiost criminal in thewilful perversions of this work : great latitude is undoubtedlyto be allowed to romantic fiction, but there are limits which itmust not pass ; and the names of the distinguished dead, whichbelong to history, are no more to be calumniated than those ofthe ilki
The Alhambra . :0 evidence of its falsity ; the manners and customs of the floorsbeing extravagantly misrepresented in it, and scenes depictedtotally incompatible with their habits and their faith, and whichnever could have been recorded by a Mohammedan writer. ;0: THE AIJIAMBRA I confess there seems to me something ahiiost criminal in thewilful perversions of this work : great latitude is undoubtedlyto be allowed to romantic fiction, but there are limits which itmust not pass ; and the names of the distinguished dead, whichbelong to history, are no more to be calumniated than those ofthe ilkistrious living. One would have thought, too, that theunfortunate Boabdil had suffered enough for his justifiablehostility to the Spaniards, by being stripped of his kingdom, having his name thus wantonly traduced, and rendereda byword and a theme of infamy in his native land, and in thevery mansion of his fathers !. Entrance to Hall of Abenccrragcc »^
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