Don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by C. Jarvis, Volume 3 |
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adventure affront Amadis de Gaul answered Don Quixote answered Sancho arms bachelor Sampson Carrasco Basilius beast beauty believe body braying called Camacho castle cave of Montesinos CHAP chivalry damsels Dapple desire devil discourse Don Diego Don Lorenzo Don Quix duchess duenna duke Dulcinea del Toboso emperor enchanted eyes famous friend Sancho gentleman give hand head hear heard heart heaven honour housekeeper knight knight-errantry knights-errant la Mancha lady Dulcinea lions look looking-glasses madman Mancha master Peter Melisendra mind mistress never niece passed pleased poet pray present priest Quiteria Quixote and Sancho Quixote's quoth Don Quixote quoth Sancho replied Don Quixote replied Sancho rich Rosinante Sancho Panza scholar shew signor Don Quixote sorrowful figure Spain squire swered sword talk tell Teresa thee thing thou thought told took true truth valour wench wood word worship
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Page 166 - I take to be like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers other virgins, namely, all the other sciences, make it their business to enrich, polish, and adorn ; and to her it belongs to make use of them all, and on her part to give a lustre to them all. But this same virgin is not to be rudely handled, nor dragged through the streets, nor exposed in the turnings of the market-place, nor posted on the corners or gates of palaces.
Page 30 - but it is one thing to write as a poet, and another to write as a historian. The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been ; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were, without adding to or diminishing aught from the truth.