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We read in both works of the catchpoles and wranglers, the pompous knights and lying knaves in fine, we cannot possibly come to any other conclusion than that Ellis Wynne has "read, marked and inwardly digested" L'Estrange's translation of Quevedo's Dreams.
Miss Margaret has been described as extremely like her brother Sir Adam in the turn of thought and of humour. See Life, vol. vi. p. 322. Fortune in her Wits, and the Hour of all Men, Quevedo's Works, Edin. 1798, vol. iii. p. 107. Don Quixote, Pt. II. cap. 47. Granby was written by a young man, Thos.
Olivares, however, had no reason to love Quevedo, and was resolved to take no active part in what he doubtless regarded as a scribblers' quarrel. Gongorism pursued its way unchecked. Quevedo's edition, though incomplete and disfigured by certain errors, was reprinted at Milan during the same year , and then all interest in Luis de Leon flickered out for a while.
This morning finished Boney. And now, as Dame Fortune says, in Quevedo's Visions, Go, wheel, and the devil drive thee. It was high time I brought up some reinforcements, for my pound was come to half-crowns, and I had nothing to keep house when the Lockharts come. Credit enough to be sure, but I have been taught by experience to make short reckonings.
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