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Don Quixote describes her appearance in the following terms: "... her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her ; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare.
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It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.
Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.
True, the pattern and flow of the drama have strong literary qualities that are a bit wearisome in the first half, before Don Quixote goes to the duke's court.
Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn, who danced the `` Nutcracker '' pas de deux, were also seen in the Petipa-Minkus pas de deux from `` Don Quixote '', another brilliant showpiece that displayed their technical prowess handsomely.
The texts for his course include the Bible, translations of Ovid, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Montaigne's essays, Pepys's diary, Richardson's Pamela, and Franklin's autobiography.
The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).
The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote.
(; ), fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.
The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote.
Published in two volumes a decade apart, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.
In one such list, Don Quixote was cited as the " best literary work ever written ".
He dons an old suit of armour, renames himself " Don Quixote de la Mancha ," and names his skinny horse " Rocinante ".
Don Quixote next " frees " a young boy who is tied to a tree and beaten by his master by making his master swear on the chivalric code to treat the boy fairly.
Don Quixote has a run-in with traders from Toledo, who " insult " the imaginary Dulcinea, one of whom severely beats Don Quixote and leaves him on the side of the road.
Don Quixote is found and returned to his home by a neighboring peasant.
While Don Quixote is unconscious in his bed, his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber secretly burn most of the books of chivalry, and seal up his library pretending that a magician has carried it off.
After a short period of feigning health, Don Quixote approaches his neighbor, Sancho Panza, and asks him to be his squire, promising him governorship of an island.
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Snorri provides a euhemeristic account, in which he describes the Norse god Odin and some other Norse gods, the Æsir, as having been real people who emigrated from the area around the river Don to Scandinavia at the time of the Roman expansion into their old homeland.
Borges ' " review " describes Menard's efforts to go beyond a mere " translation " of Don Quixote by immersing himself so thoroughly in the work as to be able to actually " re-create " it, line for line, in the original 17th century Spanish.
In his foreword to the book, Walker Percy describes Ignatius as a " slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one.
In the booklet, Crosley Bendix ( Don Joyce ) describes how Negativland's studio / apartment and recording equipment were destroyed in a two-alarm fire discovered by Negativland member Mark Hosler at 11: 50 pm late on " Friday the 13th of February, 1987 ".
Thomas Albright describes Fritz as " a kind of updated Felix with overtones of Charlie Chaplin, Candide, and Don Quixote.
" Robert Christgau simply describes the album as " Don Knotts Jr. joins the Minutemen.
Through a series of assignments given to him by Don Salieri, Tommy quickly becomes deeply involved in the activities of the Salieri business, concerning extortion, collecting protection money, bootlegging, assassination, arson jobs and a lot of unexpected gunfights, often with the opposing Don Morello, whose power Tommy describes as " built on violence ".
" Bradman " describes the cricketer, Don Bradman, and was issued as a double-A single in January 1987 with " Leaps and Bounds " from the 1986 album Gossip.
As the narration describes in chapter 1 about the naming of Don Quixote's steed, " Four days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because ( as he said to himself ) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he strove to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knight-errant, and what he then was.
Gallie, a program officer at the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), describes the impact of Don Bitzer and the PLATO system, grants related to the classroom use of computers, and NSF's Regional Computing Program.
Gallie, a program officer at the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), describes the impact of Don Bitzer and the PLATO system.
The historian Don Garden describes Turner as " frugal, prudent, unyielding and self-sacrificing ," an image in tune with the deeply depressed economy.
In his book The Circumnavigators Don Holm describes Gipsy Moth IV as " perhaps one of the worst racing yachts ever built ", while Chichester commented:
In his story of Don Joaquin's lost treasure he describes an extensive mine and a stone house in the heart of the Estrellas.
The title story, Day Million, details the romantic affair between two people, referred to as Don and Dora ( shortened versions of the names of both ) in the millionth day CE, which falls late in the year 2737, although the author alternately describes it as being about a thousand years in the future.
He was particularly influenced by two books: A. J. Venter's Coloured: A Profile of 2 Million South Africans which describes the efforts of coloured political activists such as James April, Don Mattera, Jakes Gerwel, Basil February, and his uncle, Rev.
Canto III is essentially a long digression from the main story in which Byron, in the style of an epic catalogue, describes Haidée and Don Juan's celebrations.
This is show immediately in the beginning of the play when the ghost of Don Andrea describes his stay in the underworld, “ And murderers groan with never killing wounds, / And perjured wights scalded in boiling lead, / And all foul sins with torments overwhelmed ( I. i. 68-70 ).
Don Page has argued ( sec 4 ) that " At the ultimate level, there can be only one world and, if mathematical structures are broad enough to include all possible worlds or at least our own, there must be one unique mathematical structure that describes ultimate reality.
There is a document of 1769, in which the ordinary mayor, Don Mateo Ramirez, describes the construction of the church.
Borges's " review " describes this 20th-century French writer ( Menard ) who has made an effort to go further than mere " translation " of Don Quixote, but to immerse himself so thoroughly as to be able to actually " re-create " it, line for line, in the original 16th century Spanish.
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The combat ends with the lady leaving her carriage and demanding those traveling with her to " surrender " to Don Quixote.
After reading Cardenio's poems praising Luscinda, Don Fernando falls in love with her.
Pressured into finding Dulcinea, Sancho brings back three dirty and ragged peasant girls, and tells Don Quixote that they are Dulcinea and her ladies-in-waiting.
On May 6, 1993 ( the day the murder victims were found ), Hutcheson took a polygraph exam by Detective Don Bray at the Marion Police Department to determine if she had stolen money from her West Memphis employer.
Following the fall of Tenochtitlán in late 1521 and the birth of her son Don Martín Cortés in 1522, Marina stayed in a house Cortés built for her in the town of Coyoacán, 8 miles south of Tenochtitlán, while it was being rebuilt as Mexico City.
Which enabled her to perform, with some adjustments (' con qualche « accomodo »'), also Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Amina in La sonnambula and Marie in La fille du régiment " ( Celletti, pp. 243 – 244 ).
Some may remember that the month before her 1998 victory her opponent, Don Jelinek, accused her of having disguised her identity while visiting Wilmington College, the college that rival Councilmember and Jelinek supporter Kriss Worthington attended.
Nevertheless, he paid a dowry of twelve thousand pounds for her impending marriage to Don Francisco de Moncada, son of the Prince of Paterno, Viceroy of Sicily, whom she married in 1571.
Don Francisco was said to be supportive of her painting.
Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who would continue for years in episodes written by others, such as the Scully family: Dana's father, William ( Don S. Davis ); her mother, Margaret ( Sheila Larken ); and her sister, Melissa ( Melinda McGraw ).
However, in the commentary in the American printing of the story, Don Rosa states that he was prevented from using Hortense because he would have had to explain why she had abandoned her family.
Featured performers were George Chakiris, who won an Academy Award as Bernardo in the 1961 film version, as Riff, Marlys Watters as Maria, Don McKay as Tony, and Chita Rivera reprising her Broadway role as Anita.
Her uncle Don Carlos, Conde de Molina challenges her claim, beginning the First Carlist War.
Mary summoned Knox to Holyrood after hearing that he had been preaching against her proposed marriage to Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain.
Don urges his brother to go with her and says they'll take a later train for their weekend trip.
The cleaning lady arrives for work, but Don cons her out of her wages and sends her away.
Don sneaks into his apartment to avoid her so he can drink.
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