The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author, 1. kötetWilliam Durell, 1813 |
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x. oldal
... Mr. Sterne's family are no otherwise important than on account of the crest having af- forded a hint for one of the finest stories in The Sentimental Jour- ney . There we sojourned for about ten months , when the X MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE.
... Mr. Sterne's family are no otherwise important than on account of the crest having af- forded a hint for one of the finest stories in The Sentimental Jour- ney . There we sojourned for about ten months , when the X MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE.
xii. oldal
... story is incredible , but known for truth in all that part of Ireland , where hundreds of the common people flocked to see me . From hence we followed the regiment to Dublin , where we lay in the barracks a year . In this year ( one ...
... story is incredible , but known for truth in all that part of Ireland , where hundreds of the common people flocked to see me . From hence we followed the regiment to Dublin , where we lay in the barracks a year . In this year ( one ...
xiii. oldal
... story , my father's regiment was the year after ordered to Londonderry , where another sister was brought forth , Catherine , still liv- ing ; but most unhappily estranged from me by my uncle's wickedness and her own folly . From this ...
... story , my father's regiment was the year after ordered to Londonderry , where another sister was brought forth , Catherine , still liv- ing ; but most unhappily estranged from me by my uncle's wickedness and her own folly . From this ...
9. oldal
... story my own way : -or , if I should seem now and then to tri- fle upon the road , or should sometimes put on a fool's cap , with a bell to it , for a moment or two as we pass along , don't fly off , but rather courte- - ously give me ...
... story my own way : -or , if I should seem now and then to tri- fle upon the road , or should sometimes put on a fool's cap , with a bell to it , for a moment or two as we pass along , don't fly off , but rather courte- - ously give me ...
20. oldal
... , because he thought it did honour to him . But the truth of the story was as follows : -In the first years of this gentleman's life , and about the time when the superb saddle and bridle were pur- chased 20 LIFE AND OPINIONS.
... , because he thought it did honour to him . But the truth of the story was as follows : -In the first years of this gentleman's life , and about the time when the superb saddle and bridle were pur- chased 20 LIFE AND OPINIONS.
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131. 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...
126. oldal - WRITING, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. As no one, who knows what he is about in good company, would venture to talk all; so no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good- breeding, would presume to think all : The truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.
83. oldal - This is vile work. — For which reason, from the beginning of this, you see, I have constructed the main work, and the adventitious parts of it, with such intersections, and have so complicated and involved the digressive and progressive movements, one wheel within another, that the whole machine, in general, has been kept a-going ; — and, what's more, it shall be kept a-going these forty years, if it pleases the fountain of health to bless me so long with life and good spirits.
82. oldal - ... my digressions are all fair, as you observe, — and that I fly off from what I am about, as far, and as often too, as any writer in Great Britain,— yet I constantly take care to order affairs so, that my main business does not stand still in my absence.
187. 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.
3. oldal - I WISH either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me...
4. 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.
33. oldal - Yorick, this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or later bring thee into scrapes and difficulties, which no after-wit can extricate thee out of.
103. oldal - But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it ! — by the same process and electrical...
3. 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; — and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost...