The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote |
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Author:
| de Cervantes, Miguel |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-62567-8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $27.90 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPROBATION. BY order of Signer Doflor Gutierrez de Cetina, vicar general of the city of Madrid, where his majefty keeps his court, I have persfed the fecond part of the Sage Knight, Don .Quixote cle la Marietta, written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; in which I can find nothing unworthy of a zealous...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPROBATION. BY order of Signer Doflor Gutierrez de Cetina, vicar general of the city of Madrid, where his majefty keeps his court, I have persfed the fecond part of the Sage Knight, Don .Quixote cle la Marietta, written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; in which I can find nothing unworthy of a zealous chriftian, or deviating from that refpeft which is judly due to good example and moral virtue. On the contrary, that performance contains mi ch erudition, and profitable amufement; not only in the well- fupported fequel of his delign. to extirpate thofe Tain and lying books of chivalry, which had already too far fpread their infection; but alfo in the purity of his Caftilian language, unadulterated with infip'd affeftation, which every man of fenfe abhors: and in his manner of correfling the vicious, who generally feel the point of his fatire. Yet he fo wifely obfervea'the laws of Crriftian rebuke that the patient labouring under the infirmity which he intends to cure, may, in fuch fveet and palatable medicine, even without his own knowledge, op the leaft hindrance and' loathing, fwallow down an effectual deteftaticn for vke; fo that he will ti.id himfelf at once delighted and reformed, in confe- quence of an art which is known to few. There are1 many authors, who not knowing how to blend and mix instruction with delight, have feen all their tedious labours mifcarry; becaufe, not being able t imitate Diogenes, as a. learned philofopher, they- have prefumed licentioufly, not to fay obfcurely, to ir.imic him as a cynic, giving ear to (Under, and inventing tilings that never happened; by which means they enlarge the vicious capacity of thofe whom their harfh reproofs ftigmatize; and, perhaps, flrike out new paths of lewdnefs hitherto unknown: fo that inftead of reformer?, ...