The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, 1. kötetWilliam Durrell and Company, 1813 |
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xiv. oldal
... give him full measure . He was , in his temper , somewhat rapid and hasty , but of a kindly , sweet disposition , void of all design ; and so innocent in his own intentions , that he suspected no one ; so that you might have cheated him ...
... give him full measure . He was , in his temper , somewhat rapid and hasty , but of a kindly , sweet disposition , void of all design ; and so innocent in his own intentions , that he suspected no one ; so that you might have cheated him ...
5. oldal
... his rules , nor to any man's rules that ever lived . To such however as do not choose to go so far back into these things , I can give no better advice VOL . I. B than that they skip over the remaining part of this OF TRISTRAM SHANDY . 5.
... his rules , nor to any man's rules that ever lived . To such however as do not choose to go so far back into these things , I can give no better advice VOL . I. B than that they skip over the remaining part of this OF TRISTRAM SHANDY . 5.
9. oldal
... give you a better relish for the other . As you proceed farther with me , the slight acquaintance , which is now beginning betwixt us , will grow into familiarity ; and that un- less one of us is in fault , will terminate in friend ...
... give you a better relish for the other . As you proceed farther with me , the slight acquaintance , which is now beginning betwixt us , will grow into familiarity ; and that un- less one of us is in fault , will terminate in friend ...
10. oldal
With a Life of the Author Laurence Sterne. ously give me credit for a little more wisdom than appears upon my outside ; —and , as we jog on , either laugh with me , or at me , or , in short , do any thing , -only keep your temper . CHAP ...
With a Life of the Author Laurence Sterne. ously give me credit for a little more wisdom than appears upon my outside ; —and , as we jog on , either laugh with me , or at me , or , in short , do any thing , -only keep your temper . CHAP ...
11. oldal
... give the poor soul as good a title by law to practice , as his wife had given by institution , -he cheerfully paid the fees for the ordinary's licence himself , amounting in the whole to the sum of eigh- teen shillings and four pence ...
... give the poor soul as good a title by law to practice , as his wife had given by institution , -he cheerfully paid the fees for the ordinary's licence himself , amounting in the whole to the sum of eigh- teen shillings and four pence ...
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affair amongst battle of Landen betwixt body brother Toby centinel cerebellum CHAP chapter child cle Toby conscience continued my father corporal Trim cried my father cried my uncle curse dear demigration devil Didius discourse dispute Eugenius forceps give half hand head heart heaven HOBBY-HORSE honour horse humour imagination LAURENCE STERNE least look madam man's matter ment midwife mind mother nasum nature never nose Obadiah OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM Phutatorius pity poor Prignitz quoth Dr quoth my father quoth my uncle quoth Trim ravelin reader reason replied Dr replied my father replied my uncle replied Trim respondit sermon shew side Slawkenbergius Slop soul Stevinus story stranger Strasburg tell thee thing thought tion told Trim's Triptolemus TRISTRAM SHANDY truth turn twas uncle Toby uncle Toby's Walter Shandy whole wife wish word worships Yorick
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14. oldal - In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say there was no danger,— but to itself: -whereas the very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit...
99. oldal - Go,' says he one day at dinner to an overgrown one which had buzzed about his nose and tormented him cruelly all dinner time, and which, after infinite attempts he had caught at last, as it flew by him ; — 'I'll not hurt thee,' says my Uncle Toby, rising from his chair and going across the room with the fly in his hand ; 'I'll not hurt a hair of thy head. Go...
160. oldal - I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
42. oldal - Nor is there any thing unnatural or extravagant in the supposition, that my dear Jenny may be my friend ! Friend ! — My friend. Surely, madam, a friendship between the two sexes may subsist, and be supported without Fy ! Mr. Shandy. — Without any thing, madam, but that tender and delicious sentiment which ever mixes in friendship, where there is a difference of sex.
xiii. oldal - ... how much depended upon what they were then doing; — that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind...
141. oldal - A MAN'S body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin's lining; — rumple the one — you rumple the other.
159. oldal - ... against all rule, my Lord, — most ungrammatically ! betwixt the substantive and the adjective, which should agree together in number, case, and gender, he made a breach thus, — stopping, as if the point wanted settling ; — and betwixt the nominative case, which your lordship knows should govern the verb, he suspended his voice in the epilogue a dozen times three seconds and three fifths by a stop-watch, my Lord, each time.
xii. oldal - I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, — but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of Life.
xiv. oldal - Pray, my Dear,' quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' 'Good G — !' cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, ' Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question ? ' Pray, what was your father saying ? Nothing.
xvii. oldal - Horace, I know, does not recommend this fashion altogether : But that gentleman is speaking only of an epic poem or a tragedy, — (I forget which ;) — besides, if it was not so, I should beg Mr. Horace's pardon ; — for in writing what I have set about, I shall confine myself neither to his rules, nor to any man's rules that ever lived.