Literature of the world : an introductory study . must indeed be dull to those who have not madetheir acquaintance, for they are real creations and will give delightto the end of time. One of the chief charms of the book, as well as its greatest weak-ness, is that it was apparently thought out by Cervantes as he wentalong, and was printed without revision. What it gains thereby innaturalness it loses in other directions, for it is inconsistent, andsometimes verbose and slovenly. It starts as an attack upon the char-acteristic romances of chivalry, but it soon deepens into more thanthat—a work
Literature of the world : an introductory study . must indeed be dull to those who have not madetheir acquaintance, for they are real creations and will give delightto the end of time. One of the chief charms of the book, as well as its greatest weak-ness, is that it was apparently thought out by Cervantes as he wentalong, and was printed without revision. What it gains thereby innaturalness it loses in other directions, for it is inconsistent, andsometimes verbose and slovenly. It starts as an attack upon the char-acteristic romances of chivalry, but it soon deepens into more thanthat—a work imbued with a thoroughly modern spirit, a work atonce national and universal, teaching by transparent example thedangers of trusting solely to blue b^ood and noble race and in- ELINCENIOSO HIDALGO DON QVI- XOTE DE LA MANCHA, Comfuejio for Miguel de Ceruanhs Saaueara, DIRIGIDOAL DVQVE DE B E I A R, Marques dc Gibraleon, Condc de Benalcajar, y Bafu- res, Vizconde de la Puebia de Alcozcr, Sctlor de las villas de Capilla, Curiel^y Burguillos. inO;. i6oJ. CONPRIVILEGIO,EV. MJLDTtlD^ PorluanddaCuefta. VendcfccocafadcFriocifcode ;librcro delRey r\\o{<:r\br^ TITLE-PAGE, FIRST EDITION OF dON QUIXOTE 184 LITERATURE OF THE WORLD herited prejudice. The character of Don Quixote also advances inthe authors estimation and in ours. His madness is in one directiononly. He is gentle, courteous, cultivated, full of enthusiasm; indue time he makes us think more than he makes us laugh. SanchoPanza appears at first as a commonplace rustic, ignorant and sim-ple-minded ; but he soon takes his rightful place as the directantithesis of his master and the unsparing though unconsciousrevealer of the knights glorious inconsistencies and cleverness increases with the progress of the story, hispractical wisdom develops, he becomes more loquacious and sen-tentious, a more superb liar. He has become a citizen of the is also an improvement in the style and material
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