Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2

Part II. c. xi. The other translators have nearly the same words. But in

employing the generic term they lose the species, that is, the thing itself; but what is less tolerable, in the flatness of the style, they lose that delightfulness with which Cervantes conveys to us the recollected pleasures then busying the warm brain of his hero. An English reader, who often grows weary over...