The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne, 1. kötetClonmel Society, 1904 |
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xxi. oldal
... speak the truth , Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposi- tion in his nature to gravity . " Suppress the clause about being unpractised in the world as an affectation , and you have , I think , Sterne as he was . So unsteady and ...
... speak the truth , Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposi- tion in his nature to gravity . " Suppress the clause about being unpractised in the world as an affectation , and you have , I think , Sterne as he was . So unsteady and ...
xlvii. oldal
... else . The modern world has not seen his like . The ancients — though I do not pretend to speak with authority may have had such a humorist in Lucian . But there is - a difference in the quality of their humor . Lu- xlvii INTRODUCTION.
... else . The modern world has not seen his like . The ancients — though I do not pretend to speak with authority may have had such a humorist in Lucian . But there is - a difference in the quality of their humor . Lu- xlvii INTRODUCTION.
11. oldal
... 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 11 OF TRISTRAM SHANDY.
... 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 11 OF TRISTRAM SHANDY.
13. oldal
... speaking of , he had likewise gradually brought some other little family concern- ments to the same period , in order , as he would often say to my uncle Toby , to get them all out of the way at one time , and be no more plagued and ...
... speaking of , he had likewise gradually brought some other little family concern- ments to the same period , in order , as he would often say to my uncle Toby , to get them all out of the way at one time , and be no more plagued and ...
16. oldal
... speak of the fair as his own market has gone in it ; for which cause I affirm it over again to be one of the vilest worlds that ever was made ; -for I can truly say , that from the first hour I drew my breath in it , to this , that I ...
... speak of the fair as his own market has gone in it ; for which cause I affirm it over again to be one of the vilest worlds that ever was made ; -for I can truly say , that from the first hour I drew my breath in it , to this , that I ...
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206. oldal - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, And with labour do we find the things that are before us...
185. oldal - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head. Go," says he, liftin<* up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke to let it escape.
9. 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. There is one certain exception however in this case, and that is, when you are so fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of a gum-taffeta, and the body-lining to it, of a sarcenet or thin Persian.
5. 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; had they duly considered 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...
21. oldal - ... so long as a man rides his HOBBY-HORSE peaceably and quietly along the king's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him, pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
60. oldal - Could a historiographer drive on his history, as a muleteer drives on his mule, — straight forward ; for instance, from Rome all the way to Loretto, without ever once turning his head aside either to the right hand or to the left, he might venture to foretell you to an hour when he should get to his journey's end; but the thing is, morally speaking, impossible...
43. oldal - Great Apollo! if thou art in a giving humour - give me - I ask no more, but one stroke of native humour, with a single spark of thy own fire along with it - and send Mercury, with the rules and compasses, if he can be spared, with my compliments to - no matter.