Identifier: witwisdomofdon00cerv (find matches)
Title: Wit and wisdom of Don Quixote ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 Thompson, Emma, (from old catalog) tr. and comp
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Publisher: Boston, Roberts brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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se of Kivadeneyra erected a press and 1 Some biographers have it that the house was in the Calle cieLeon, afterwards the royal asylum, and that his wife and sisterhad belonged to the third order of S^. Francis for seven yearsbefore his death. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. xlv printed their edition de luxe of u Don Quijote. Thehouse was, some years since, purchased by the late In-fante Don Sebastian, with a view to a complete andcareful restoration ; but political changes and his deathprevented a realization of his project. The Epocanow calls public attention to the state of decay of thehouse, with a view to an immediate restoration. In the Plaza de las Cortes, the city of Madrid hasplaced a beautiful bronze statue of Cervantes upon asquare pedestal of granite. Upon the sides are bas-reliefs representing subjects taken frorn Don Quijotede la Mancha. The present time honors his memory ; and for all time he will live in the hearts of all true lovers of genius. Requiescat in Pace. EMMA THOMPSON.
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SANCHO PANZA. WIT AND WISDOM OF DON QUIXOTE. Down in a village of La Mancha, the name ofwhich I have no desire to recollect, there lived, notlong ago, one of those gentlemen who usually keepa lance upon a rack, an old buckler, a lean horse,and a coursing gray ho and. Soup, composed of some-what more mutton than beef, the fragments served upcold on most nights, lentils on Fridays, collops andeggs on Saturdays, and a pigeon by way of additionon Sundays, consumed three-fourths of his income ;the remainder of it supplied him with a cloak of fluecloth, velvet breeches, with slippers of the same forholidays, and a suit of the best homespun, in whichhe adorned himself on week-days. His family con-sisted of a housekeeper above forty, a niece not quitetwenty, and a lad who served him both in the field andat home, who could saddle the horse or handle thepruning-hook. The age of our gentleman borderedupon fifty years: he was of a strong constitution,spare-bodied, of a meagre visage, a very early

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