The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Volumen3

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Adam and Charles Black, 1895

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Página 283 - And that personage who appears there with a crown on his head and a sceptre in his hand...
Página 13 - From the middle of the sixteenth to the middle of the seventeenth centuries, the...
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 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 5 - ... is that he charges me with being old and maimed, as though it had been in my power to stop time from passing over me, or as though my deformity had been produced in some tavern, and not on the grandest occasion which ages past or present have seen, or those to come can hope to see. If my wounds do not shine in the eyes of him who looks on them, they are at least...
Página 41 - One of the faults they find with this history," said the bachelor, "is that its author inserted in it a novel called The Ill-advised Curiosity;' not that it is bad or ill-told, but that it is out of place and has nothing to do with the history of his worship Senor Don Quixote.
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 266 - ... than by letters, as I have said many a time ; for though letters may have founded more great houses than arms, still those founded by arms have I know not what superiority over those founded by letters, and a certain splendour belonging to them that distinguishes them above all.
Página 142 - Calas as for a martyr; nor was the festival of a martyr ever celebrated with greater pomp by any church: but then this pomp was truly terrible. Beneath a magnificent canopy was placed a skeleton which was made to move...

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