Don Quixote

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The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedication to the Conde de Lemos, the...

But it would be idle to deny that the ingredient which, more than its humour, or its wisdom, or the...

In the Second Part it is the spirit rather than the incidents of the chivalry romances that is the...

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If thou art not a Peer, peer thou hast none; Among a thousand Peers thou art a peer; Nor is there...

At this moment it so happened that a swineherd who was going through the stubbles collecting a...

He had not gone far, when out of a thicket on his right there seemed to come feeble cries as of...

If I were to show her to you, replied Don Quixote, what merit would you have in confessing a truth...

See there. plague on it. cried the housekeeper at this. did not my heart tell the truth as to which...

These must be, not chivalry, but poetry, said the curate; and opening one he saw it was the Diana...

It was not the devil, said the niece, but a magician who came on a cloud one night after the day...

God order it as he may, said Sancho Panza, and helping him to rise got him up again on Rocinante,...

In the First Part of this history we left the valiant Biscayan and the renowned Don Quixote with...

Sancho took out some lint and ointment from the alforjas; but when Don Quixote came to see his...

In that case, Antonio, thou mayest as well do us the pleasure of singing a little, that the...

One of those on horseback addressing his companion said to him, It seems to me, Seor Vivaldo, that...

The rest of the party went along listening with great attention to the conversation of the pair,...

With these words, and not waiting to hear a reply, she turned and passed into the thickest part of...

Know, friend Sancho, answered Don Quixote, that the life of knights errant is subject to a thousand...

The carrier had made an arrangement with her for recreation that night, and she had given him her...

Sancho got up with pain enough in his bones, and went after the innkeeper in the dark, and meeting...

That is what vexes me, and what ought to vex thee, Sancho, replied Don Quixote; but henceforward I...

Holy Mary. cried Sancho, what is this that has happened me. Clearly this sinner is mortally...

He took it into his head that the litter was a bier on which was borne some sorely wounded or slain...

Seor, you have ended this perilous adventure more safely for yourself than any of those I have...

I did not know her, said Sancho, but he who told me the story said it was so true and certain that...

It may be on the dice, said Don Quixote, that all thou sayest will come true; overlook the past,...

So urgent is it, answered Sancho, that if they were for my own person I could not want them more;...

Don Quixote asked the same question of the second, who made no reply, so downcast and melancholy...

Nice nonsense. said the commissary; a fine piece of pleasantry he has come out with at last. He...

Thou art right, said Don Quixote, and I cannot guess or explain what this may mean; but stay; let...

All I can tell you, said the goatherd, is that about six months ago, more or less, there arrived at...

Cardenio was looking at him steadily, and his mad fit having now come upon him, he had no...

To which Sancho made answer, By the living God, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, I cannot...

Sovereign and exalted Lady, The pierced by the point of absence, the wounded to the hearts core,...

The lealest lover time can show, Doomed for a lady love to languish, Among these solitudes doth go,...

So I have thought, said Sancho; though I can tell you he is fit for anything. what I mean to do for...

To proceed, then. Don Fernando finding my presence an obstacle to the execution of his treacherous...

The youth then took off the montera, and shaking his head from side to side there broke loose and...

All this that I have now repeated I said to him, and much more which I cannot recollect; but it had...

So it may, said the curate; and as for your masters marrying, I will do all in my power towards it....

In that case, said the curate, we must pass right through my village, and there your worship will...

By my oath, Seor Don Quixote, you are not in your right senses; for how can your worship possibly...

Then I promise thee, said Don Quixote, that, winnowed by her hands, beyond a doubt the bread it...

Well then, if that be so, said Sancho, how is it that your worship makes all those you overcome by...

I cannot understand how that can be, for in truth to my mind there is no better reading in the...

In Florence, a rich and famous city of Italy in the province called Tuscany, there lived two...

Lothario seeing the fixed determination of Anselmo, and not knowing what further examples to offer...

That will not be necessary, said Lothario, for the muses are not such enemies of mine but that they...

What, my friend. replied Camilla, we shall leave him for Anselmo to bury him; for in reason it will...

There remained but little more of the novel to be read, when Sancho Panza burst forth in wild...

A foolish and ill advised desire has robbed me of life. If the news of my death should reach the...

At these words Luscinda looked up at Cardenio, at first beginning to recognise him by his voice and...

So said the sprightly Dorothea, and on hearing her Don Quixote turned to Sancho, and said to him,...

All this lengthy discourse Don Quixote delivered while the others supped, forgetting to raise a...

In this way I lived on immured in a building or prison called by the Turks a bao in which they...

At this her father laughed very heartily and said, By Allah, Christian, she must be very beautiful...

The renegade interpreted to us what the Moor said to his daughter; she, however, returned him no...

By this time night closed in, and as it did, there came up to the inn a coach attended by some men...

This singer, dear seora, is the son of a gentleman of Aragon, lord of two villages, who lives...

But the comrades of the spokesman, growing weary of the dialogue with Don Quixote, renewed their...

With this the love smitten youth was silent, while the Judge, after hearing him, was astonished,...

On hearing this one of the newly arrived officers of the Brotherhood, who had been listening to the...

I swear by God Omnipotent, exclaimed Don Quixote at this, your highness has hit the point; and that...

Don Quixote overheard the conversation and said, Haply, gentlemen, you are versed and learned in...

While this was going on, Sancho, perceiving that he could speak to his master without having the...

Well then, returned Don Quixote, to my mind it is you who are the one that is out of his wits and...

To this Don Quixote replied, Seeing that this affair has a certain colour of chivalry about it, I...

From these words all the hearers concluded that he must be a madman, and began to laugh heartily,...

The knight lies here below, Ill errant and bruised sore, Whom Rocinante bore In his wanderings to...

Ods body. said Don Quixote at this, what more has his Majesty to do but to command, by public...

The history relates that the outcry Don Quixote, the curate, and the barber heard came from the...

So true is it, seor, said Samson, that my belief is there are more than twelve thousand volumes of...

No doubt of that, replied Don Quixote; but it often happens that those who have acquired and...

He then begged the bachelor, if he were a poet, to do him the favour of composing some verses for...

Whence it arises, he continued, that when we see any person well dressed and making a figure with...

Well then, returned the bachelor, dont be uneasy, but go home in peace; get me ready something hot...

Didst thou take that for a yard wall, Sancho, said Don Quixote, where or at which thou sawest that...

Seor, replied Sancho, every country has a way of its own; perhaps here in El Toboso it is the way...

To be brief, the instant Sancho saw the peasant girls, he returned full speed to seek his master,...

Sancho recalled him from his reverie. Melancholy, seor, said he, was made, not for beasts, but for...

There is no occasion to take vengeance on anyone, seor, replied Sancho; for it is not the part of...

With an Ah me. that seemed to be drawn from the inmost recesses of his heart, the Knight of the...

He is, said of the Grove, with one Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best roasted lady the whole...

That custom, sir squire, replied Sancho, may hold good among those bullies and fighting men you...

And the nose. said Sancho, seeing him without the hideous feature he had before; to which he...

God knows whats the truth of it all, said Sancho; and knowing as he did that the transformation of...

Sancho held his tongue, and gave him a cloth, and gave thanks to God at the same time that his...

So far did his unparalleled madness go; but the noble lion, more courteous than arrogant, not...

While Don Quixote was taking off his armour, Don Lorenzo for so Don Diegos son was called took the...

The lovely maid, she pierces now the wall; Heart pierced by her young Pyramus doth lie; And Love...

That is true, said the licentiate, for those who have been bred up in the Tanneries and the...

While Sancho fared thus, Don Quixote was watching the entrance, at one end of the arcade, of some...

While Don Quixote and Sancho were engaged in the discussion set forth the last chapter, they heard...

Sancho, listening to all this, said to himself, This master of mine, when I say anything that has...

He then begged them to give him something to eat, as he was very hungry. They spread the cousins...

When Sancho Panza heard his master say this he was ready to take leave of his senses, or die with...

What spilorceria. as an Italian would say, said Don Quixote; but for all that, consider yourself...

Thou dost not understand me, Sancho, said Don Quixote; I only mean he must have made some compact...

The complete destruction of the show being thus accomplished, Don Quixote became a little calmer,...

From this device Don Quixote concluded that these people must be from the braying town, and he said...

Sancho regarded Don Quixote earnestly while he was giving him this rating, and was so touched by...

Did I not tell thee, Sancho, said Don Quixote at this, that we had reached the place where I am to...

He of the Lions be it, continued the duke; I say, let Sir Knight of the Lions come to a castle of...

The ecclesiastic took his seat opposite to him, and the duke and duchess those at the sides. All...

That is true, said Don Quixote, and the reason is, that he who is not liable to offence cannot give...

To that I may reply, said Don Quixote, that Dulcinea is the daughter of her own works, and that...

The duchess could not help laughing at the simplicity of her duenna, or wondering at the language...

Just so, said Sancho; and I would not have kings and princes expose themselves to such dangers for...

Not a hand, my own or anybody elses, weighty or weighable, shall touch me, said Sancho. Was it I...

If I was well whipped I went mounted like a gentleman; if I have got a good government it is at the...

The twelve duennas and the lady came on at procession pace, their faces being covered with black...

That is the truth, seor, said one of the twelve; we have not the money to get ourselves shaved, and...

And now night came, and with it the appointed time for the arrival of the famous horse Clavileo,...

At this Don Quixote exclaimed, Art thou on the gallows, thief, or at thy last moment, to use...

Sancho made him an obeisance, and said, Ever since I came down from heaven, and from the top of it...

If any handsome woman come to seek justice of thee, turn away thine eyes from her tears and thine...

Ah, sinner that I am. said Don Quixote, how bad it looks in governors not to know how to read or...

To me, said Don Quixote, they will not be flowers, but thorns to pierce my heart. They, or anything...

At this instant there came into court two old men, one carrying a cane by way of a walking stick,...

If the previous decision about the cattle dealers purse excited the admiration of the bystanders,...

To which Sancho, glowing all over with rage, returned, Then let Doctor Pedro Recio de Malaguero,...

Don Quixote kept an eye upon her from his watchtower, and observing her costume and noting her...

Night came, and with the permission of Doctor Pedro Recio, the governor had supper. They then got...

On seeing this the secretary leant over to the head carvers ear, and said to him in a low voice,...

Friend Teresa, Your husband Sanchos good qualities, of heart as well as of head, induced and...

The page refused, but had to consent at last for his own sake; and the curate took him home with...

To these words Don Quixote replied very gravely and solemnly, Worthy duenna, check your tears, or...

Urged by these exhortations and reproaches the poor governor made an attempt to advance, but fell...

Thou knowest well, neighbour and friend Sancho Panza, how the proclamation or edict his Majesty...

It struck Don Quixote that it was the voice of Sancho Panza he heard, whereat he was taken aback...

Tosilos meanwhile was trying to unlace his helmet, and he begged them to come to his help at once,...

One word and no more, O valiant Don Quixote, I ask you to hear, said Altisidora, and that is that I...

Recollect, Sancho, replied Don Quixote, there are two sorts of beauty, one of the mind, the other...

So then, said Sancho, munching hard all the time, your worship does not agree with the proverb that...

To this he replied, Dulcinea is a maiden still, and my passion more firmly rooted than ever, our...

I neither put down king, nor set up king, said Sancho; I only stand up for myself who am my own...

One of the squires heard this, and raising the butt end of his harquebuss would no doubt have...

The cavalier replied with words no less polite, and then, all closing in around him, they set out...

Don Antonio directed him to be taken up bodily and carried to bed, and the first that laid hold of...

I would venture to swear, said Don Quixote, that your worship is not known in the world, which...

What heart could be so hard as not to be softened by these words, at any rate so far as to listen...

Rocinante from the mere hard measure he had received lay unable to stir for the present. Sancho,...

Thou art a great philosopher, Sancho, said Don Quixote; thou speakest very sensibly; I know not who...

Is it possible, Sancho, said Don Quixote, that thou dost still think that he yonder is a real...

Never have I heard thee speak so elegantly as now, Sancho, said Don Quixote; and here I begin to...

At this some six duennas, advancing across the court, made their appearance in procession, one...