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Title: Gomez Arias
The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance.

Author: Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio

Release Date: September 5, 2009 [EBook #29916]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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GOMEZ ARIAS;

OR,

THE MOORS OF THE ALPUJARRAS.

A SPANISH HISTORICAL ROMANCE.

BY

DON TELESFORO DE TRUEBA Y COSIO.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PREFACE.
CHAPTER I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI.,
XII., XIII., XIV.

VOL. II.
CHAPTER I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI.,
XII., XIII., XIV.

VOL. III.
CHAPTER I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI.
CONCLUSION.

NOTES.

_LONDON:_
HURST, CHANCE, AND CO.
65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.
1828.

GUNNELL AND SHEARMAN, PRINTERS, SALISBURY SQUARE.

VOL. I.

TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE LORD HOLLAND.

_My Lord_,

_It is with pleasure I avail myself of your permission to dedicate the
following Work to your name, as a small mark of my respect for your
Lordship's character._

_As a Spaniard, I find an additional motive for addressing it to one who
has uniformly shewn the interest he feels in the prosperity and
literature of my country._

_I have the honor to be_,

_My Lord_,

_Your Lordship's_

_Most obedient and obliged Servant_,

TELESFORO DE TRUEBA Y COSIO.

_London, March 1, 1828._

PREFACE.

Let me intreat the reader not to be alarmed at the hacknied word, which
generally augurs that a person is going to be very egotistical and
prosy. This, at least, it will be my ambition to avoid. Nor is it my
intention to assume its literary prerogatives in any way as a mask for a
sort of mock humility, end