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maxims, the grace of poetic colouring; but judging from 

 what they were under the Abassides, even if they had built 

 on the same foundation of classical antiquity with which we 

 find them familiar, they yet could never have produced those 

 works of sublime poetry and creative art which are the 

 boast of our European cultivation. 



