The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Volumen 4

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A. and C. Black, 1895
 

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Página 408 - The Pirate. 14. The Fortunes of Nigel. 15. Peveril of the Peak. 16. Quentin Durward. 17. St. Ronan's Well. 18. Redgauntlet. 19. The Betrothed. 20. The Talisman : A Tale of the Crusaders. 21. Woodstock; or, The Cavalier. 22. The Fair Maid of Perth ; or, St. Valentine's Day. 23. Anne of Oelersteln ; or, The Maiden of the Mist.
Página 11 - Ven, muerte, tan escondida, que no te sienta venir, porque el placer de morir no me torne a dar la vida.
Página 365 - ... 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 369 - ... 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 367 - 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.
Página 408 - Since.' 2. Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. 3. The Antiquary. 4. Rob Roy. 5. Old Mortality. 6. The Black Dwarf, and A Legend of Montrose.
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 371 - For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him; it was for him to act, for me to write, and we two are one in spite of that Tordesillesque ™ pretender who had, and may have, the audacity to write with a coarse and ill-trimmed ostrich quill of the deeds of my valiant knight.
Página 366 - All that nonsense," said Don Quixote, "that until now has been a reality to my hurt, my death will, with heaven's help, turn to my good. I feel, sirs, that I am rapidly drawing near death; a truce to jesting; let me have a confessor to confess me, and a notary to make my will ; for in extremities like this, man must not trifle with his soul; and while the curate is confessing me let some one, I beg, go for the notary.
Página 340 - ... Sancho, opening his eyes and ears a span wide at this offer, gave consent in his heart to scourge himself with a good will. " Ay, sir, now you say well," quoth he to his master. " I am willing to dispose of myself to do you a pleasure in what may consist with my advantage, for my love for my children and wife makes me seem selfish. Tell me how much you will give me for each lash I give myself...

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