Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and VersesCadell and Davies, London, 1798 - 314 pages |
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... taste , he found no other method of soft- ening his narrative , than the introduction of buffoonery . Some of his successors pre- ferred the form of conversations , character- istically supported ; a fashion introduced under the ...
... taste , he found no other method of soft- ening his narrative , than the introduction of buffoonery . Some of his successors pre- ferred the form of conversations , character- istically supported ; a fashion introduced under the ...
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... taste and feeling . But even through this kind of translation , we discern a mind of exquisite sensibility , highly ornamented both by reading and conversation . Her poetical correspondence with Marot does great honour to her wit and ...
... taste and feeling . But even through this kind of translation , we discern a mind of exquisite sensibility , highly ornamented both by reading and conversation . Her poetical correspondence with Marot does great honour to her wit and ...
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... taste and knowledge to those of elegance and beauty , it would be unjust to forget the unfortunate MARY STUART . Brantome , an eye - witness of the early part of her life , informs us that she was much attached to literature , and that ...
... taste and knowledge to those of elegance and beauty , it would be unjust to forget the unfortunate MARY STUART . Brantome , an eye - witness of the early part of her life , informs us that she was much attached to literature , and that ...
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... taste , more than by reasoning ; the investigation is slow , but the conviction is rapid . The skilful miner thus each cranny tries , Where wrapt in dusky rocks the crystal lies , Slow on the varying surface tracks his spoil , Oft ...
... taste , more than by reasoning ; the investigation is slow , but the conviction is rapid . The skilful miner thus each cranny tries , Where wrapt in dusky rocks the crystal lies , Slow on the varying surface tracks his spoil , Oft ...
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... taste , but not so well authenticated , may be found in the Passe Temps agréable . I must here vindicate Sterne from a charge of plagiarism , which has been made . from inattention to dates . It has been said , that he borrowed much ...
... taste , but not so well authenticated , may be found in the Passe Temps agréable . I must here vindicate Sterne from a charge of plagiarism , which has been made . from inattention to dates . It has been said , that he borrowed much ...
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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.