Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and VersesCadell and Davies, London, 1798 - 314 pages |
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... Swift - Gabriel John .. Mon- Chapter III . Other writers imitated by Sterne- Burton - Bacon - Blount taigne - Bishop Hall ... Page . Chapter IV . Mr. Shandy's hypothesis of noses explained - Taliacotius - Stories of long noses ...
... Swift - Gabriel John .. Mon- Chapter III . Other writers imitated by Sterne- Burton - Bacon - Blount taigne - Bishop Hall ... Page . Chapter IV . Mr. Shandy's hypothesis of noses explained - Taliacotius - Stories of long noses ...
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... Swift- Gabriel John . Some of my readers may probably find themselves introduced , in this chapter , to some very strange acquaintances , and may experience a sensation like that which ac- companies the first entrance into a gallery of ...
... Swift- Gabriel John . Some of my readers may probably find themselves introduced , in this chapter , to some very strange acquaintances , and may experience a sensation like that which ac- companies the first entrance into a gallery of ...
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... Swift , in his Project of a Literary Turning Machine , in the Voy- age to Laputa . Des Cartes has defined Lul- ly's plan to be , the art of prating copiously , and without judgment , concerning things of which we are ignorant : * an art ...
... Swift , in his Project of a Literary Turning Machine , in the Voy- age to Laputa . Des Cartes has defined Lul- ly's plan to be , the art of prating copiously , and without judgment , concerning things of which we are ignorant : * an art ...
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... Swift's Dissertation on Ears probably contributed towards Sterne's digressions on Noses , which shall be consider ed hereafter . I do not know that it has been observed , that in this pleasant and acute * Roman Comique , tom . ii , chap ...
... Swift's Dissertation on Ears probably contributed towards Sterne's digressions on Noses , which shall be consider ed hereafter . I do not know that it has been observed , that in this pleasant and acute * Roman Comique , tom . ii , chap ...
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... Swift is much superior in correct- ness of taste , but the turn of pleasantry is very similar , and has little in common with other writers . Eachard was a writer of great celebrity in Swift's early days , when he com- posed his Tale of ...
... Swift is much superior in correct- ness of taste , but the turn of pleasantry is very similar , and has little in common with other writers . Eachard was a writer of great celebrity in Swift's early days , when he com- posed his Tale of ...
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Page 209 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead 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 178 - He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it x.
Page 303 - We retrench the superfluities of mankind. The world is avaritious, and I hate avarice. A covetous fellow, like a jack-daw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it. These are the robbers of mankind, for money was made for the free-hearted and generous, and where is the injury of taking from another, what he hath not the heart to make use of?
Page 201 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Page 126 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 281 - And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 68 - 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 66 - 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 69 - Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens to set out our own sterile plots. . . . [W]e weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again.
Page 99 - There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and illwill: a word, — a look, which at one time would make no impression at another time wounds the heart; and like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.