The Alhambra . sureof favour and preferment. Inthose days, if any one asked forbread, the reply was, make me acouplet; and the poorest beggar,if he begged in rhyme, would oftenbe rewarded with a piece of gold.\ lif^ ? W \ ••* I * ^^^ ^^ ^^^ popular feeling for iiillHBL^? il^wffi t-^- ^ poetry, said I, entirely lost W^ftflft ^li^ifcs^^v V among you ? ^^•awB, M,Ji«»^ JV ugy j^Q means, sefior; the people of Barbary, even those ofthe lower classes, still make coup-lets, and good ones too, as in-? ?-•-?^ Qld times: but talent is not re-*^ warded as it was then : the rich prefer the jingle of th
The Alhambra . sureof favour and preferment. Inthose days, if any one asked forbread, the reply was, make me acouplet; and the poorest beggar,if he begged in rhyme, would oftenbe rewarded with a piece of gold.\ lif^ ? W \ ••* I * ^^^ ^^ ^^^ popular feeling for iiillHBL^? il^wffi t-^- ^ poetry, said I, entirely lost W^ftflft ^li^ifcs^^v V among you ? ^^•awB, M,Ji«»^ JV ugy j^Q means, sefior; the people of Barbary, even those ofthe lower classes, still make coup-lets, and good ones too, as in-? ?-•-?^ Qld times: but talent is not re-*^ warded as it was then : the rich prefer the jingle of their gold to the sound of poetry or he was talking, his eye caught one of the inscriptionswhich foretold perpetuity to the power and glory of the Moslemmonarchs, the masters of this pile. He shook his head, andshrugged his shoulders, as he interpreted it. Such mighthave been the case, said he ; the Moslems might still havebeen reigning in the Alhambra, had not Boabdil been a THE COURT OF LIONS 157 and given up his capital to the Christians. The Spanishmonarchs would never have been able to conquer it by openforce. I endeavoured to vindicate the memory of the unluckyBoabdil from this aspersion, and to show that the dissensions I ^ /ei^;j^;. ^j:m^.^
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