Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses, Volumes 1-2Cadell and Davies, By J. and J. Haddock, Warrington, 1812 |
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... I had no intention to resume the subject . But after an enquiry has been successfully begun , facts appear to B 2 erous writings —General account of the nature of the ludicrous -Why the sixteenth century produced many authors of this class.
... I had no intention to resume the subject . But after an enquiry has been successfully begun , facts appear to B 2 erous writings —General account of the nature of the ludicrous -Why the sixteenth century produced many authors of this class.
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... appear to offer themselves of their own accord to the investigator . Materials have encreased on my hands , from a few casual notes and references , to the size of a formal treatise : I trust it will be found , however , that I have had ...
... appear to offer themselves of their own accord to the investigator . Materials have encreased on my hands , from a few casual notes and references , to the size of a formal treatise : I trust it will be found , however , that I have had ...
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... appear that his great secret consists in exaggeration . This is also the art of caricaturists : ' add but a trifling degree of length or breadth to the features of an agreeable face , and they become ludi- crous . In like manner ...
... appear that his great secret consists in exaggeration . This is also the art of caricaturists : ' add but a trifling degree of length or breadth to the features of an agreeable face , and they become ludi- crous . In like manner ...
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... appear that the value set upon sheer wit , as it was then called , was hardly less inconsistent with strict judg- ment , than was the merriment of the cap and bells with the grave discussions of the furred doctors , or learned ladies of ...
... appear that the value set upon sheer wit , as it was then called , was hardly less inconsistent with strict judg- ment , than was the merriment of the cap and bells with the grave discussions of the furred doctors , or learned ladies of ...
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... , wide ruffs and farthingales , however richly bedecked , conceal , for a while , the expression and the charms of the best- features . With a little patience , it will appear that wit , like beauty , can break through 40 ILLUSTRATIONS.
... , wide ruffs and farthingales , however richly bedecked , conceal , for a while , the expression and the charms of the best- features . With a little patience , it will appear that wit , like beauty , can break through 40 ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Page 64 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 78 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 94 - Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Are we for ever to be twisting, and untwisting the same rope? for ever in the same track — for ever at the same pace?
Page 89 - ... winding and unwinding themselves as so many clocks, and still pleasing their humours, until at last the SCENE...
Page 88 - So delightsome these toys are at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years alone in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like unto dreams, and they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly interrupt, so pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary business, they cannot address themselves to them, or almost...
Page 110 - ... tis thou who enlargest the soul, — and openest all its powers to receive instruction and to relish virtue. He that has thee, has little more to wish for; — and he that is so wretched as to want thee, — wants every thing with thee.
Page 91 - When to myself I act, and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook-side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless And crown my soul with happiness. All my joys besides are folly : Nought so sweet as melancholy...
Page 88 - A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done.
Page 91 - THE AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT OF MELANCHOLY. WHEN I go musing all alone, Thinking of divers things foreknown ; When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow, and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet ; Methinks, the time runs very fleet ! All my joys to this, are folly ; Nought so sweet as Melancholy...
Page 80 - I do most earnestly exhort you as men, as Christians, as parents, and as lovers of your country to read this paper with the utmost attention, or get it read to you by others...