. Thackerayana;. enius and discerning spiritof Michael Cervantes; who has not only painted hisadventurer with great mastery in the conspicuousparts of his story, which relate to love and honour,but also intimated in his ordinary life, in his economyand furniture, the infallible symptoms he gave of hisgrowing phrenzy, before he declared himself a knight-errant. His hall was furnished with old lances, hal-berds, and morions; his food, lentiles; his dress,amorous. He slept moderately, rose early, and spenthis time in hunting. When by watchfulness and exercise he wasthus qualified for the hardship
. Thackerayana;. enius and discerning spiritof Michael Cervantes; who has not only painted hisadventurer with great mastery in the conspicuousparts of his story, which relate to love and honour,but also intimated in his ordinary life, in his economyand furniture, the infallible symptoms he gave of hisgrowing phrenzy, before he declared himself a knight-errant. His hall was furnished with old lances, hal-berds, and morions; his food, lentiles; his dress,amorous. He slept moderately, rose early, and spenthis time in hunting. When by watchfulness and exercise he wasthus qualified for the hardships of his intended peregrinations, hehad nothing more to do but to fall hard to study; and, before heshould apply himself to the practical part, get into the methods ofmaking love and war by reading books of knighthood. As forraising tender passions in him, Cervantes reports that he was won-derfully delighted with a smooth, intricate sentence; and whenthey listened at his study-door, they could frequently hear him. THE TATLER: 273 read aloud, The reason of the unreasonableness, which againstmy reason is wrought, doth so weaken my reason, as with allreason I do justly complain of your beauty. Again he wouldpause until he came to another charming sentence, and, with themost pleasing accent imaginable, be loud at a new paragraph : The high heavens, which, with your divinity,- do fortify youdivinely with the stars, make you deserveress of the deserts thatyour greatness deserves. With these and other such passages,says my author, the poor gentleman grew distracted, and wasbreaking his brains day and night to understand and unravel theirsense. 1 What I am now warning the people of is, that the newspapersof this island are as pernicious to weak heads in England as everbooks of chivalry to Spain; and therefore shall do all that in melies, with the utmost care and vigilance imaginable, to prevent thesegrowing evils. Mr. BickerstafT goes on to describe the private Bedlam he hasprovided fo
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