"So that our author did not enter the lists against the memory of the real substantial chivalry, which he held in veneration; but, with design to expel an hideous phantome that possessed the brains of the people, waging perpetual war with true genius and invention."
The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, Some Account of the Author's Life. By Tobias Smollett, M.D
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. <u>The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote</u>, trans. Tobias Smollett (New York: Random House, 2001).