Don Quixote in his Studydetails

We can do no more than play at swords with him (in our frontispiece) in his study chair. His eyes are fixed and glassy; his face is quick with passion and heroic resolve; in his brave right hand he brandishes Durandal, the good sword; and about him, made real to his inner eye, there roars and clashes and seethes the whole mythology of Chivalry. Amadis charges at him from his shoulder; here are Tirante the White, and Galaor the Inconstant, and the peerless Roland. There frowns the enchanted pate of the giant Caraculiambro; there Morganto hales off the Princess of Trebizond; there are the griffins, the dragons with sail-broad vannes, the enchanted castles, the pennons and banners and destriers—all the welter and coil of adventure gone mad; all the phantasms of knight-en-antry flung together in one brilliant and bewildering pell-mell. (p. 226)