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invaders bestowed substantial benefits on
Spain. They literature – they encouraged those illustrious
hebrew schools to which Europe has never repaid in grateful acknowledgement
the debt which it owes – they resumed to conferred on the country they had
conquered the blessings of a mild & tolerating government – they taught
a more profitable & better system of agriculture, – they instructed the Spaniards
in arts & science not at all, or very imperfectly, known before – & (what is
more immediately connected with our subject – they formed a new school of
poetry, & their verses which became so popular in Spain† that Latin verses
were wholly neglected, – & we are told by a contemporary author that
every body studied Arabic, & wrote it with the greatest possible purity.*
But in the meantime we may trace the Poetry
of the Spanish Troubadours up to the 10th century – these volaries
of the "gay saber" whose influence on modern poetry has not been
appreciated, nor honestly recognized form as pursued able
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