Don Quixote : hero of Don Quixote (de la Mancha), by Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, dramatist & poet.
... sees the difference now cannot but be struck by it, and Shaw's part in it, at least in preparing and making it possible, is undeniable." 1 And what about Cervantes with his immortal creation Don Quixote? He wrote his book as a satire upon the silly romances Page 371 of chivalry. And what was the result? "It was Cervantes," remarks Prof. Stephen Leacock, "who, as has been said a thousand... mediaeval chivalry." Prof. Leacock continues: "If we grasp just what [with progressive degeneration] had happened to feudalism and chivalry, we can realize what it was that Cervantes did with Don Quixote and appreciate the glorious humour that lies at the base of it.... It can make us realize again the great power of humorous writing as a social force. Books of tears move the world as did Uncle... himself not a satirist, became the inspirer of much subsequent satire through his idea of an imaginary commonwealth, Utopia. We have already talked about Cervantes who came at a later period: his Don Quixote was a satire and so much more. In the writings of John Donne we may detect the direct imitation of the Roman satirists. Most of the great dramatists of the 17th century were satirists, Moliere ...
... away from his moorings of tradition and custom to answer the call of his soul of flame. But alas, we, who have learnt to idolize reason, have grown a little too prone to regard faith somewhat à a Don Quixote who may, on occasions, be lovable and entertaining, but is, by and large, too simple to be taken seriously. When, however, we choose thus to let reason deride faith we forget that two can play at ...
... cover himself with a jest at every step; it is at once his mask and his defence. At bottom he has the possibility in him of a modern Curtius leaping into the yawning pit for a cause, a Utopist or a Don Quixote,— according to occasions a fighter for dreams, an idealistic pugilist, a knight-errant, a pugnacious rebel or a reckless but often shrewd and successful adventurer. Shaw has all that in him, but ...
... cover himself with a jest at every step; it is at once his mask and his defence. At bottom he has the possibility in him of a modern Curtius leaping into the yawning pit for a cause, an Utopist or a Don Quixote,—according to occasion a fighter for dreams, an idealistic pugilist, a knight errant, a pugnacious rebel or a brilliant sharp-minded realist or a reckless but often shrewd and successful adventurer ...
... (1809-1882): British naturalist and biologist, author of a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection, known by the name of Darwinism. Don Quixote: Tragicomic hero of a Cervantes novel. Don Quixote's main quest in life is to revive chivalric virtues and values. Honest and idealistic, he wants to save the world and dispense justice. He is the ...
... two years. He spent these two years in prison in philosophic and literary work. There have been many famous literary gaolbirds, the two best known perhaps being the Spaniard, Cervantes, who wrote Don Quixote, and the Englishman, John Bunyan, the author of The Pilgrim's Progress. I am not a man of letters, and I am not prepared to say that the many years I Page 384 have spent in gaol ...
... who felt highly offended on being offered as assistant a man of the name of Cuts. How can the bearer of so plebeian and abbreviated an appellation impress an ear accustomed to grand things like "Don Quixote de la Mancha"? And I must admit that Spanish names have a very satisfying emotional effect. Some years ago I came across the name of a contemporary Spanish writer, an exile from Franco's Spain who ...
... the real problem was that certain people were outrightly and openly robbing Mother. My books were in fact only a small part of a vaster racket that involved all of Sri Aurobindo's works. Much like Don Quixote, then, I was pitching headlong into a battle whose outcome was foreseeable. It may be recalled that the head of SABDA, the book business, is the brother of the man who tried to appropriate Auroville ...
... there you are. All things are possible [in Yoga]. Page 135 July 26, 1936 Last night I suddenly went to the French pictures—the mistake of my life-time—to see the famous Don Quixote. Came away fed up after half-an-hour. Served right after a hard day's labour. Another song of my father's, and Nishikanta's beautiful twin. See. This song can be read too. E ...
... s of different countries, we come across a procession of remarkable humorous characters created by the great masters of fiction. Some of the more well-known names in this field are: Cervantes's Don Quixote with Sancho Panza beside him, Shakespeare's Falstaff, Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain the 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme', Dickens's Mr. Picwick, Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon, Wode-house's Jeeves, Harry Leon ...
... reformer! Needless to say, both judgments were entirely out of focus.... At bottom he has the possibility in him of a modern Curtius, leaping into the yawning pit for a cause, a Utopist or a Don Quixote, - according to occasions, a fighter for dreams, an idealistic pugilist, a knight-errant, a pugnacious rebel or a brilliant sharp-minded realist or a reckless or often shrewd and successful adventurer ...
... Cellular Plasticity So, I had expected to see Mother battling against cellular and millennial imperatives, a “pleasant” sort of physiological impossibility, since after all, even the cellular Don Quixotes have their worth in a world dried-up with legalities from tip to toe⎯but not at all! The problem or difficulty does not lie where we imagine it does. What seems implacable to us is child’s play⎯it ...
... subsidies for pure research from the profit of commerce. Once only, in 1933, she abandoned these practical questions and went to Madrid to preside over a debate on "the Future of Culture": "Don Quixotes of the spirit who are fighting their windmills," Paul Valery, the initiator of the meeting called them. She astonished her colleagues by her courteous authority and by the originality of her in... perils of specialization and standardization, and they made science in part responsible for the "crisis of culture" in the world. Here again we see Marie Curie, the most quixotic perhaps of all the Don Quixotes present, defending with the same faith as of old, the love of research and the spirit of adventure and enterprise, in short, the passion which had guided her life always. "I am among those who think ...
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