Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and VersesCadell and Davies, London, 1798 - 314 pages |
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Page 11
... called the King's Academy , and admission to it was reckoned a particular mark of fa- vour . It is remarkable that this institu- tution took place at the very time when , ac- cording to Perefixe , the morals of the court were most ...
... called the King's Academy , and admission to it was reckoned a particular mark of fa- vour . It is remarkable that this institu- tution took place at the very time when , ac- cording to Perefixe , the morals of the court were most ...
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... ob- servations , and the time of Charles 11. of this country , it will appear that the value set upon sheer wit , as it was then called , was hardly less inconsistent with strict judgment , than was the OF STERNE . 21.
... ob- servations , and the time of Charles 11. of this country , it will appear that the value set upon sheer wit , as it was then called , was hardly less inconsistent with strict judgment , than was the OF STERNE . 21.
Page 42
... little doubt , that from the perusal of this work , Sterne con- ceived the first precise idea of his Tristram , as far as any thing can be called precise , in a desultory book , apparently written with great rapidity . 42 ILLUSTRATIONS.
... little doubt , that from the perusal of this work , Sterne con- ceived the first precise idea of his Tristram , as far as any thing can be called precise , in a desultory book , apparently written with great rapidity . 42 ILLUSTRATIONS.
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... kind of mental luxury , which is gene- * This Anatomy of Melancholy , p . 52 , 53. My copy is the eighth edition , 1676. The first edition was published in 1617 . rally called castle - building . It appears a happy 62 ILLUSTRATIONS.
... kind of mental luxury , which is gene- * This Anatomy of Melancholy , p . 52 , 53. My copy is the eighth edition , 1676. The first edition was published in 1617 . rally called castle - building . It appears a happy 62 ILLUSTRATIONS.
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With Other Essays and Verses John Ferriar. rally called castle - building . It appears a happy privilege to possess the direction of an ideal world , into which we can withdraw at pleasure , when disgusted with the gross material scene ...
With Other Essays and Verses John Ferriar. rally called castle - building . It appears a happy privilege to possess the direction of an ideal world , into which we can withdraw at pleasure , when disgusted with the gross material scene ...
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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.