The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Volumen3

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A. and C. Black, 1895

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Página 366 - Duran (vol. ip 411), relates how that the despairing King, seeking to do penance for the sin which had lost him his kingdom, enters an old tomb where there is a live serpent, in order to end his life there. On the third day a hermit accosts him, asking how he is getting on in that company, when the King replies : — La culebra me comia Comeme ya por la parte, Que todo lo merecia, Por donde fue el principle, De la mi mui gran desdicha. Clemencin is of opinion that Cervantes himself made up the lines...
Página 13 - ... in the list of the many impertinent projects which are wont to be brought before Princes. — Mine, Master Shaver, said Don Quixote, is not impertinent, but rather very pertinent. — I do not say that it is, replied the Barber ; but experience has shown that all or most of the projects which are 1 From the middle of the sixteenth to the middle of the seventeenth centuries, the...
Página 39 - but it is one thing to write as a poet, another to write as a historian; the poet may describe or sing things, not as they were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian has to write them down, not as they ought to have been, but as they were, without adding anything to the truth or taking anything from it.
Página 52 - For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Página 187 - N°. 518. \J dulces prendas por mi mal halladas, dulces y alegres cuando Dios queria!
Página 224 - Galera, la mi galera, Dios te me guarde de mal, De los peligros del mundo Sobre aguas de la mar, De los llanos de Almería, Del estrecho de Gibraltar, Y del golfo de Venecia, Y de los bancos de Flandes, Y del golfo de León, Donde suelen peligrar.
Página 92 - All that is true," returned Don Quixote, "but we cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God takes his own to heaven; chivalry is a religion, there are sainted knights in glory." "Yes," said Sancho, "but I have heard say that there are more friars in heaven than knightserrant.
Página xviii - France 1 had made to his Excellency, who had come to treat of the marriage of his Princes with those of Spain, several French gentlemen of those who came in the suite of the Ambassador, as courteous as intelligent, and fond of polite letters, came up to me and other chaplains of the Cardinal, my lord, desiring to know what books of most worth were current; and touching by chance on this which I was then examining, scarce did they hear the name of Miguel de Cervantes when they began to wag their tongues...
Página 167 - ... whether such and such lines of Virgil are to be understood in this way or in that. In short, all his converse is with the books of the said poets, and those of Horace, Persius, 1 Doubtless written in bitter irony ; though here, as elsewhere, the irony has been lost on some critics. Few men of letters had less reason than the author of Don Quixote to be grateful to the liberality of Kings and Princes. What the late Professor of Modern History at Oxford meant by saying that "without the Duke of...
Página 85 - Filódoce, Dinámene y Climene, Nise, que en hermosura par no tiene. Cerca del Tajo, en soledad amena, de verdes sauces hay una espesura, toda de...

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