A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... satire against church and state . Sterne assumed the manner of his master , only as a mode of attracting attention , and of making the public stare ; and , therefore , his extravagancies , like those of a feigned madman , are cold and ...
... satire against church and state . Sterne assumed the manner of his master , only as a mode of attracting attention , and of making the public stare ; and , therefore , his extravagancies , like those of a feigned madman , are cold and ...
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... satire upon the ordinary pursuits of learning and science . Sterne , on the contrary , had no particular object of ridicule ; his business was only to create a person , to whom he could attach the great quantity of extraordinary reading ...
... satire upon the ordinary pursuits of learning and science . Sterne , on the contrary , had no particular object of ridicule ; his business was only to create a person , to whom he could attach the great quantity of extraordinary reading ...
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... satire entirely flowed out of honesty of mind and mere jocundity of humour . It must be owned , moreover , that Sterne was more like to have stolen a passage out of Stevinus if he could have found one to his purpose , than to have left ...
... satire entirely flowed out of honesty of mind and mere jocundity of humour . It must be owned , moreover , that Sterne was more like to have stolen a passage out of Stevinus if he could have found one to his purpose , than to have left ...
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... satire that would be useful and diverting : he resolved to proceed in a manner that should be altogether new , the world having been already too long nauseated with endless repetitions upon every subject . The abuses in religion he ...
... satire that would be useful and diverting : he resolved to proceed in a manner that should be altogether new , the world having been already too long nauseated with endless repetitions upon every subject . The abuses in religion he ...
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... satire that I suppose they thought was too particular , and therefore they were forced to change it to the num- ber three , from whence some have endeavoured to squeeze out a dangerous meaning that was never thought on . And indeed the ...
... satire that I suppose they thought was too particular , and therefore they were forced to change it to the num- ber three , from whence some have endeavoured to squeeze out a dangerous meaning that was never thought on . And indeed the ...
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Seite 342 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Seite 106 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to Lilerty, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change.
Seite 251 - What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of...
Seite 381 - THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. Translated from the Spanish of MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA by MOTTEUX.
Seite 318 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Seite 58 - I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to I would court their shade, and greet them kindly for their protection I would cut my name upon them, and swear they were the loveliest trees throughout the desert: if their leaves wither'd, I would teach myself to mourn, and when they rejoiced, I would...
Seite 258 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment, found these words : Item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, &c., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Seite 108 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door — then cast it down — shook hjs head — and went on with his work of affliction.
Seite 249 - For about this time it happened a sect arose, whose tenets obtained and spread very far, especially in the grand monde, and among everybody of good fashion. They worshipped a sort of idol, who, as their doctrine delivered, did daily create men by a kind of manufactory operation.
Seite 161 - HEAVEN - eternal fountain of our feelings! - 'tis here I trace thee - and this is thy divinity which stirs within me - not, that in some sad and sickening moments, 'my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction' - mere pomp of words! - but that I feel some generous joys and generous cares beyond myself- all comes from thee, great - great SENSORIUM of the world! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls upon the ground, in the remotest desert of thy creation.