The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...Hurst, Robinson, and Company, 1822 |
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Page 17 - All the while the steward was speaking, Sancho was staring on an inscription in large characters on the wall over against his seat; and, as he could not read, he asked, what was the meaning of that which he saw painted there upon the wall ? " Sir," said they, " it is an account of the day when your lordship took possession of this island ; and the inscription runs thus : ' This day, being such a day of this month, in such a year, the Lord Don Sancho Panza took possession of this island, which may...
Page 344 - Such is Mariana's edition of the famous story of the Infants of Lara, a story which, next to the legends of the Cid, and of Bernardo del Carpio, appears to have furnished the most favourite subjects of the old Spanish minstrels. The ballad, a translation of which follows, relates to a part of the history briefly alluded to by Mariana. In the Chronicle, we are informed more minutely, that, after the Seven Infants were slain, Almanzor, King of Cordova, invited his prisoner...
Page 18 - If it please you, my lord," cried the tailor, "I and this farmer here are come before your worship. This honest man came to my shop yesterday, for saving your presence, I am a tailor, and. Heaven be praised, free of my company; so, my lord, he showed me a piece of cloth. 'Sir,' quoth he, 'is there enough of this to make a cap?
Page 267 - Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep ! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak ; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap ; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
Page 355 - She looked upon him, and she knew the face of Aguilar, Although his beauty was disgraced with many a ghastly scar ; She knew him, and she cursed the dogs that pierced him from afar. And mangled him when he was slain — the Moors of Alpuxar.
Page 241 - Dulcinea del Toboso is the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am the most unfortunate knight on earth, nor is it just that my weakness should discredit this truth ; knight, push on your lance, and. take away my life, since you have despoiled me of my honour.
Page 18 - At the same instant two men came into the court, the one dressed like a country fellow, the other looked like a tailor, with a pair of shears in his hand. " If it please you, my lord," cried the tailor, " I and this farmer here are come before your worship. This honest man came to my shop yesterday, for, saving your presence, I am a tailor, and, Heaven be praised, free of my company ; so, my lord, he showed me a piece of cloth.
Page 267 - It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap ; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep ; it is, that it resembles death...
Page 21 - With all my heart," answered the other; "sir, here it is," and with that he gave it to him. Sancho took it, and giving it to the other old man, "There," said he, "go your ways, and Heaven be with you, for now you are paid.
Page 21 - Certainly," said the Governor, " or else I am the greatest dunce in the world. And»now you shall see whether I have not a headpiece fit to govern a whole kingdom upon a shift.