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Cervantes

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Cervantes [səˈvæntiːz (Spanish) θɛrˈβantes]
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(Biographies / Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) M, Spanish, THEATRE: dramatist, WRITING: poet, WRITING: novelist) Miguel de (miˈγɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547-1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
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Noun1.Cervantes - Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)Cervantes - Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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I think it hardly less fortunate that Cervantes was one of my early passions, though I sat at his feet with no more sense of his mastery than I had of Goldsmith's.
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That Cervantes has been for many years a great friend of mine, and to my knowledge he has had more experience in reverses than in verses.
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Come, thou that hast inspired thy Aristophanes, thy Lucian, thy Cervantes, thy Rabelais, thy Moliere, thy Shakespear, thy Swift, thy Marivaux, fill my pages with humour; till mankind learn the good-nature to laugh only at the follies of others, and the humility to grieve at their own.
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