The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Volumen 4

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Adam and Charles Black, 1895
 

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Página 11 - Ven, muerte, tan escondida, que no te sienta venir, porque el placer de morir no me torne a dar la vida.
Página 373 - ... are no impediment to them. My reason is now free and clear, rid of the dark shadows of ignorance that my unhappy constant study of those detestable books of chivalry cast over it. Now I see through their absurdities and deceptions, and it only grieves me that this destruction of my illusions has come so late that it leaves me no time to make some amends by reading other books that might be a light to my soul. Niece, I feel myself at the point of death, and I would fain meet it in such a way as...
Página 377 - ... and he said that in no book of chivalry had he ever read of any knight-errant dying in his bed so calmly and so like a Christian as Don Quixote, who amid the tears and lamentations of all present yielded up his spirit, that is to say died. On perceiving it the curate begged the notary to bear witness that Alonso Quixano the Good, commonly called Don Quixote of La Mancha, had passed away from this present life, and died naturally; and said he desired this testimony in order to remove the possibility...
Página 46 - WHEN SANCHO PANZA WAS ABOUT to assume the governorship of his Island he was given two pieces of advice by Don Quixote: First of all, O my son, fear God: for the fear of him is Wisdom, and Wisdom will never let thee go astray. Secondly, consider what thou art, and make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult knowledge that can be imagined. This was written by Cervantes for the purpose of ridicule; he was one of the powerful popularizers of the contrary view that finds in Sancho...
Página 48 - If any handsome woman come to seek justice of thee, turn away thine eyes from her tears and thine ears from her lamentations, and consider deliberately the merits of her demand, if thou wouldst not have thy reason swept away by her weeping, and thy rectitude by her sighs.
Página 11 - VEN, muerte, tan escondida que no te sienta conmigo porque el gozo de contigo no me torne a dar la vida Ven como rayo que hiere, que hasta que ha herido no se siente su ruido.
Página 375 - don't die, master, but take my advice and live many years; for the foolishest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die without rhyme or reason, without anybody killing him, or any hands but melancholy's making an end of him. Come, don't be lazy, but get up from your bed and let us take to the fields in shepherd's trim as we agreed.
Página 241 - King to place, or to depose him, Dwelleth not in my desire, But the duty which he owes him, To his master pays the squire.
Página 324 - I never heard you, Sancho,' quoth Don Quixote, 'talk so elegantly as now; whence I come to know the truth of the proverb you often apply, Not with whom thou art bred, but with whom thou art fed.
Página 65 - Cervantes: -- |Oh vida segura la mansa pobreza, Dádiva santa desagradecida: Rica se llama, no pobre la vida Del que se contenta vivir sin riqueza!...

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