All 6 Uses of
harangue
in
Don Quixote
- from which, however, he came to the conclusion that his neighbour was mad, and so made all haste to reach the village to escape the wearisomeness of this harangue of Don Quixote's;†
Chpt 1.5-6
- All this long harangue (which might very well have been spared) our knight delivered because the acorns they gave him reminded him of the golden age; and the whim seized him to address all this unnecessary argument to the goatherds, who listened to him gaping in amazement without saying a word in reply.†
Chpt 1.11-12
- so as to put a stop to thy long harangue by not listening to thee I verily suspect that either thou dost not know me, or I do not know thee;†
Chpt 1.33-34
- "For God's sake, Sancho," said Don Quixote here, "stop that harangue; it is my belief, if thou wert allowed to continue all thou beginnest every instant, thou wouldst have no time left for eating or sleeping; for thou wouldst spend it all in talking."†
Chpt 2.19-20
- "Hast thou finished thy harangue, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.†
Chpt 2.19-20 *
- Roque Guinart found his squires at the place to which he had ordered them, and Don Quixote on Rocinante in the midst of them delivering a harangue to them in which he urged them to give up a mode of life so full of peril, as well to the soul as to the body; but as most of them were Gascons, rough lawless fellows, his speech did not make much impression on them.†
Chpt 2.59-50
Definition:
to try to persuade, or to criticize in an impassioned and often annoying manner; or a speech with such an intent