The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne, 1. kötetClonmel Society, 1904 |
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xxi. oldal
... 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 reckless was ...
... 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 reckless was ...
xxxiii. oldal
... truth . There is no good reason to suspect his morals , but he dawdled about pretty women . ' The view of Thackeray may be maintained ; but the view of Bagehot recent discoveries render impossible . Thus far I have aimed to VOL . I.C ...
... truth . There is no good reason to suspect his morals , but he dawdled about pretty women . ' The view of Thackeray may be maintained ; but the view of Bagehot recent discoveries render impossible . Thus far I have aimed to VOL . I.C ...
lviii. oldal
... truth in all that part of Ireland , where hundreds of the common people flocked to see me . From thence we followed the regiment to Dublin , where we lay in the barracks a year . In this year ( one thousand seven hundred and twenty ...
... truth in all that part of Ireland , where hundreds of the common people flocked to see me . From thence we followed the regiment to Dublin , where we lay in the barracks a year . In this year ( one thousand seven hundred and twenty ...
lxxiii. oldal
... truth , I consider myself as largely his debtor for the tears and the laughter he so frequently excited , and was desirous to leave behind me ( for so long at least as this trifle shall remain ) some small memorial of my gratitude . I ...
... truth , I consider myself as largely his debtor for the tears and the laughter he so frequently excited , and was desirous to leave behind me ( for so long at least as this trifle shall remain ) some small memorial of my gratitude . I ...
13. oldal
... truth a slave , —he had made it a rule for many years of his life , - on the first Sunday - night of every month throughout the whole year , -as certain as ever the Sunday - night came , -to wind up - a large house - clock , which we ...
... truth a slave , —he had made it a rule for many years of his life , - on the first Sunday - night of every month throughout the whole year , -as certain as ever the Sunday - night came , -to wind up - a large house - clock , which we ...
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affair answered better betwixt breeches brother Toby cerebellum CHAPTER character child conscience Corporal Trim Coxwold cried my father cried my uncle curse dear devil Didius Eugenius fancy give half hand head heart Heaven HOBBY-HORSE honour horse humour imagination Jaques Sterne kind Laurence Sterne least look Madam man's matter ment mind mother nasum nature never Obadiah opinion parson Phutatorius poor pray Prignitz quoth Dr Slop quoth my father quoth my uncle ravelin reader reason replied Dr Slop replied my father replied my uncle sermon Shandy Hall shew side siege of Namur Slawkenbergius soul spirits Sterne Sterne's Stevinus story stranger Strasburg Susannah tell thee thing thou thought thro tion told Trim's Triptolemus Tristram Shandy truth turn twas uncle Toby uncle Toby's Walter Shandy whole wife wish word write wrote Yorick
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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.