Cervantic

Cervantic art, the spirit of which, says Sterne, is to clothe low subjects in sublime language.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

There is nothing in the play as published by Theobald to suggest Shakespeare's hand, {259a} but Theobald doubtless took advantage of a tradition that Shakespeare and Fletcher had combined to dramatise the Cervantic theme.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Sage, goes on to say: "The following sheets I have modelled on his plan"; and Sterne was always talking and thinking about Cervantes, and comparing himself to the great Spaniard: "I think there is more laughable humor, with an equal degree of Cervantic satire, if not more, than in the last," he writes of one of his chapters, to "my witty widow, Mrs. F."

Confessions and Criticisms Julian Hawthorne 1890

Lord Fauconberg, a donative of one hundred and sixty pounds a-year; and Bishop Warburton [3] gave him a purse of gold and this compliment (which happened to be a contradiction), “that it was quite an original composition, and in the true Cervantic vein:” the only copy that ever was an original, except in painting, where they all pretend to be so.

Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890

There is indeed a quaint Cervantic gravity in his mode of expressing himself, that often glances forth, and enlivens what otherwise would be mere dry narrative.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

The humorous figure of Mr. Shandy is, of course, the Cervantic centre of the whole; and it was out of him and his crotchets that Sterne, no doubt, intended from the first to draw the materials of that often unsavoury fun which was to amuse the light-minded and scandalize the demure.

Sterne Traill, H D 1882

Cervantic touch which raises the commonplace, even the mean, into the highest regions of art.

The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

The Spaniard said nothing, but no doubt indicated the possession of Cervantic humor by the sly calmness with which she exhausted her own waiter and pillaged her neighbors.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

She was very silent, but no doubt indicated the possession of Cervantic humour by the sly calmness with which she exhausted her own waiter, and pillaged her neighbours.

The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

There is indeed a quaint Cervantic gravity in his mode of expressing himself, that often glances forth, and enlivens what otherwise would be mere dry narrative.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801