Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and VersesCadell and Davies, London, 1798 - 314 pages |
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Page 133
... effect it is an order which has its rules , that we have no business to contradict . " Let the French despise flat noses and little eyes , and the Chinese esteem them ; these are the caprices and extravagancies of the imagination . But ...
... effect it is an order which has its rules , that we have no business to contradict . " Let the French despise flat noses and little eyes , and the Chinese esteem them ; these are the caprices and extravagancies of the imagination . But ...
Page 137
... effect ; Despointis would not yield his place . The little hero , exas- perated beyond all patience , seized the point of his antagonist's nose , and turning it aside , according to the laws of the lever , said , you may stay where you ...
... effect ; Despointis would not yield his place . The little hero , exas- perated beyond all patience , seized the point of his antagonist's nose , and turning it aside , according to the laws of the lever , said , you may stay where you ...
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... effect , because without affecta- tion . But his imagination was ill - regulated , and it had a constant tendency to form com- binations on this particular subject , which his taste alone , to say nothing of other mo- tives , shonld ...
... effect , because without affecta- tion . But his imagination was ill - regulated , and it had a constant tendency to form com- binations on this particular subject , which his taste alone , to say nothing of other mo- tives , shonld ...
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... effect of strong pressure , applied to the heads of very young children ; which is connected with another theory that Sterne has diverted himself with . I have not met with the original of it in my reading , but will give a passage from ...
... effect of strong pressure , applied to the heads of very young children ; which is connected with another theory that Sterne has diverted himself with . I have not met with the original of it in my reading , but will give a passage from ...
Page 226
... effect . It seems favourable to an author's ex- ertions , that he should be obliged to proceed no farther in verse , than his poetical impulse determines him ; and that up- on a change of subject , or a total deficiency of poetical ...
... effect . It seems favourable to an author's ex- ertions , that he should be obliged to proceed no farther in verse , than his poetical impulse determines him ; and that up- on a change of subject , or a total deficiency of poetical ...
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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.