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In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies of mankind; and when the universal pursuit of gain is trampling down the early growth of poetic feeling, and wearing out the verdure of the soul, I question whether it would not be of service for the reader occasionally to turn to these records of prouder times and loftier modes of thinking; and to steep himself to the very lips in old Spanish romance.
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― Tales of the Alhambra
― Tales of the Alhambra
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Growth in the 1960s and 1970s was very fast; and the 1960s are generally reckoned to be the period of Spain's industrailization.(page 201)
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― The Oxford History of Modern Europe
― The Oxford History of Modern Europe
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