...evidence [as to Cervantes] some picturesque legends must be discarded. Carlyle is quoted as saying: "A certain strong man, of former time, fought stoutly...nakedness and the world's ingratitude ; and sitting in gaol, with one arm left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named...

...discarded. Carlyle is quoted as saying: "A certain strong man, of former time, fought stoutly at Lcpanto, worked stoutly as Algerine slave ; stoutly delivered...nakedness and the world's ingratitude ; and sitting in gaol, with one arm left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named...

...stout cheerfulness endured famine and nakedness and the world's ingratitude ; and sitting in gaol, with one arm left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote." The details are not strictly accurate : Cervantes did not deliver himself from slavery, was...

...still prove negative, consider, secondly, what strength actually is, and where you are to try for it. A certain strong man, of former time, fought stoutly...sitting in jail, with the one arm left him, wrote our joyfulest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote: this was a genuine strong...

...a "genuine strong man" who makes the "sham strong man" of modern society look woefully inadequate: "A certain strong man, of former time, fought stoutly...sitting in jail, with the one arm left him, wrote our joyfulest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote: this was a genuine strong...