All 9 Uses of
blasphemy
in
Don Quixote
- "She distils nothing of the kind, vile rabble," said Don Quixote, burning with rage, "nothing of the kind, I say, only ambergris and civet in cotton; nor is she one-eyed or humpbacked, but straighter than a Guadarrama spindle: but ye must pay for the blasphemy ye have uttered against beauty like that of my lady."†
Chpt 1.3-4blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred
- "In faith, Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "if thou knewest as I do what an honourable and illustrious lady Queen Madasima was, I know thou wouldst say I had great patience that I did not break in pieces the mouth that uttered such blasphemies, for a very great blasphemy it is to say or imagine that a queen has made free with a surgeon.†
Chpt 1.25-26blasphemies = things said or done that are disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion
- "In faith, Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "if thou knewest as I do what an honourable and illustrious lady Queen Madasima was, I know thou wouldst say I had great patience that I did not break in pieces the mouth that uttered such blasphemies, for a very great blasphemy it is to say or imagine that a queen has made free with a surgeon.†
Chpt 1.25-26blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred
- Don Quixote, when he heard such blasphemies uttered against his lady Dulcinea, could not endure it, and lifting his pike, without saying anything to Sancho or uttering a word, he gave him two such thwacks that he brought him to the ground; and had it not been that Dorothea cried out to him to spare him he would have no doubt taken his life on the spot.†
Chpt 1.29-30blasphemies = things said or done that are disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion
- never seen her, blasphemous traitor!" exclaimed Don Quixote; "hast thou not just now brought me a message from her?"†
Chpt 1.29-30 *blasphemous = disrespectful of something considered sacred
- "Well then," returned Don Quixote, "to my mind it is you who are the one that is out of his wits and enchanted, as you have ventured to utter such blasphemies against a thing so universally acknowledged and accepted as true that whoever denies it, as you do, deserves the same punishment which you say you inflict on the books that irritate you when you read them.†
Chpt 1.49-50blasphemies = things said or done that are disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion
- Hush, sir; utter not such blasphemy; trust me I am advising you now to act as a sensible man should; only read them, and you will see the pleasure you will derive from them.†
Chpt 1.49-50blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred
- "By the God that gives me life," said Don Quixote, "if thou wert not my full niece, being daughter of my own sister, I would inflict a chastisement upon thee for the blasphemy thou hast uttered that all the world should ring with.†
Chpt 2.5-6
- "Hush, Sancho," said Don Quixote in a weak and faint voice, "hush and utter no blasphemies against that enchanted lady; for I alone am to blame for her misfortune and hard fate; her calamity has come of the hatred the wicked bear me."†
Chpt 2.11-12blasphemies = things said or done that are disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion
Definition:
something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion