The Harvard Classics, Volume 14, Page 1

Front Cover
P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1910 - Anthologies
 

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 151 - to acquire in this battle, hath converted the enemy's squadrons into sheep. And if thou wilt not believe me, Sancho, yet do one thing for my sake, that thou mayst remove thine error, and perceive the truth which I affirm: get up on thine ass, and follow them fair and softly aloof, and, thou
Page 72 - found resistance in his armour, it would doubtlessly have cleft him down to the girdle. Don Quixote, feeling the weight of that unmeasurable blow, cried, with a loud voice» saying, 'O Dulcinea! lady of my soul! the flower of all beauty
Page 85 - THAT WHICH PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND CERTAIN GOATHERDS HE was entertained very cheerfully by the goatherds; and Sancho, having set up Rozinante and his ass as well as he could, he presently repaired to the smell of certain pieces of goat-flesh, that stood boiling in
Page 15 - dine,— Live of one thing secure eternally, That whilst bright Phoebus shall his horses spur Through the fourth sphere's dilated monarchy. Thy name shall be renowned, near and fur; And as, 'mongst countries, thine is best alone, So shall thine author peers on earth have none. DON BELIANIS OF GREECE TO DON
Page 487 - Micomicon, is no more a queen than my mother; for if she were what she says, she would not, at every corner and at every turning of a hand, be billing as she is with one that is in this good company.
Page 373 - as to make so costly an experience as did Anselmo; but if this accident had been devised betwixt a gentleman and his love, then were it possible; but being between man and wife, it contains somewhat that is impossible and unlikely, but yet I can take no exception against the manner of recounting thereof.
Page 15 - millions undone. I have done acts that my fame eternise, In love I courteous and so peerless was: Giants, as if but dwarfs, I did despise; And yet no time of love-plaints I let pass. I have held fortune prostrate at my feet, And by my wit seiz'd on Occasion's top, Whose wandering steps I
Page 69 - the Sabbath day.' Whilst thus they reasoned, there appeared in the way two monks of St. Benet's order, mounted on two dromedaries; for the mules whereon they rode were but little less. They wore masks with spectacles in them, to keep away the dust from their faces; and each of them besides bore their
Page 393 - of nature, invented; and it is the more to be prized, by how much it exposeth itself, more than other trades, to dangers and inconveniences. Away with those that shall affirm learning to surpass arms; for I will say unto them, be they what they list, that they know
Page 411 - the Great Turk (who is ever an inheritor to every dead man, and hath a portion among the deceased his children) and his runagates. I fell to the lot of a Venetian runagate, who being a ship-boy in a certain vessel, was taken by Uchali, who loved him so tenderly as he was one of the dearest youths

Bibliographic information