Quixot

Quixot_, or _the Knight of the Ill-favoured Countenance_, a Comedy;

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

There is a bitter invective in Don Quixot against the inventors of gun - powder, as it levels the strong with the weak, the knight cased in steel with the naked shepherd, those who have been trained to the sword, with those who are totally unskilful in the use of it; and throws down all the splendid distinctions of mankind.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

For it was that which _Cervantes_ exposed in _Don Quixot_.

An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War Bernard Mandeville 1701

Again, _Berinthia_ incourages _Amanda_ to play the _Whore_; and then sowse upon _Don Quixot_, [Footnote: p. 74.] when there is not so much as one little tiny todpol of _Smut_, that I know of, unless he creates it -- Yet I am Crambo'd with, _who, with low, nauseous Bawdry fills his

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688

I come to vindicate _Don Quixot_, but a large Remark of his, upon the little or no swearing in Plays, which commonly is only a kind of an

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688

Not he, he has not had leisure since his last _holding forth in the late Reign_, to do me this Justice, 'tis enough for him that he has encounter'd _Don Quixot_.

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688

But now I think I have said enough for the Plays, whose Authors are much better able to speak for themselves; and therefore will fall off to vindicate my self a little, and my Acquaintance _Don Quixot_; in which

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688

_Don Quixot_ (playing in his Farce for the Dukes diversion) addressing to the Dutchess in this manner, in a Jargon of Phrase made ridiculous on purpose: _Illustrious beauty, I must desire to know whether the most purifidiferous _Don Quixot_ of the _Manchissima_, and the Squireiferous

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688

Criticism again, and to proceed in defence of _Don Quixot_.

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688

And this now he inserts as my own Invention and manner of Stile, which is taken _verbatim_ from the History of _Don Quixot_, and is by all those that can judge of humour, very pleasant and fit for that purpose.

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688