All 6 Uses of
anguish
in
Don Quixote
- O lady, deign to hold in remembrance this heart, thy vassal, that thus in anguish pines for love of thee.†
Chpt 1.1-2 *anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- The lealest lover time can show, Doomed for a lady-love to languish, Among these solitudes doth go, A prey to every kind of anguish.†
Chpt 1.25-26
- What holds my heart in anguish of suspense?†
Chpt 1.27-28
- And in confirmation of the truth of what I say, let me repeat to thee a stanza made by the famous poet Luigi Tansillo at the end of the first part of his 'Tears of Saint Peter,' which says thus: The anguish and the shame but greater grew In Peter's heart as morning slowly came; No eye was there to see him, well he knew, Yet he himself was to himself a shame; Exposed to all men's gaze, or screened from view, A noble heart will feel the pang the same; A prey to shame the sinning soul will be, Though none but heaven and earth its shame can see.†
Chpt 1.33-34
- In this strain did Sancho bewail himself, and his ass listened to him, but answered him never a word, such was the distress and anguish the poor beast found himself in.†
Chpt 2.55-56
- The poor beasts felt the strange spurs and added to their anguish by pressing their tails tight, so much so that, cutting a multitude of capers, they flung their masters to the ground.†
Chpt 2.61-62
Definition:
extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)