Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses, Volumes 1-2Cadell and Davies, By J. and J. Haddock, Warrington, 1812 |
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... of laughter , the strongest effect of ludicrous impressions , seems to be produced by the intensity , or more properly , the excess of pleasurable ideas : circum præcordia ludere , is the proper character of this class of B 4 OF STERNE .
... of laughter , the strongest effect of ludicrous impressions , seems to be produced by the intensity , or more properly , the excess of pleasurable ideas : circum præcordia ludere , is the proper character of this class of B 4 OF STERNE .
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... effects , the incongruity of their own discussions . There is little difficulty in accounting for the number and excellence of the ludicrous writers , who appeared during the sixteenth century , and who not only resemble each other in ...
... effects , the incongruity of their own discussions . There is little difficulty in accounting for the number and excellence of the ludicrous writers , who appeared during the sixteenth century , and who not only resemble each other in ...
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... effect of genuine history on our minds . We discover , in every page , the caustic moralist , the uncorrupted and in- dignant courtier , unable to conceal the * John Hall Stevenson , Esq . of Skelton Castle . + This doubt is now ...
... effect of genuine history on our minds . We discover , in every page , the caustic moralist , the uncorrupted and in- dignant courtier , unable to conceal the * John Hall Stevenson , Esq . of Skelton Castle . + This doubt is now ...
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... effect of Burton's grave endeavours to prove indisputable facts by weighty quotations , he has happily caught , and sometimes well burlesqued . The archness which Burton displays oc- casionally , and his indulgence of playful ...
... effect of Burton's grave endeavours to prove indisputable facts by weighty quotations , he has happily caught , and sometimes well burlesqued . The archness which Burton displays oc- casionally , and his indulgence of playful ...
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... is in his grave : After life's fitful fever he sleeps well . + Sterne has commonly reversed the arrangement , which produces a strong effect in the comparison . feast before he was drunk . * Is it not 106 ILLUSTRATIONS.
... is in his grave : After life's fitful fever he sleeps well . + Sterne has commonly reversed the arrangement , which produces a strong effect in the comparison . feast before he was drunk . * Is it not 106 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...