A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... style were so long thought original , was , in fact , the most unhesitating plagiarist who ever cribbed from his predecessors in order to garnish his own pages . It must be owned , at the same time , 24 PREFATORY MEMOIR.
... style were so long thought original , was , in fact , the most unhesitating plagiarist who ever cribbed from his predecessors in order to garnish his own pages . It must be owned , at the same time , 24 PREFATORY MEMOIR.
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... original talent , had he chosen to exert it , to have dispensed with all such acts of literary petty larceny . Tristram Shandy is no narrative , but a collection of scenes , dialogues , and portraits , humorous or affecting , intermixed ...
... original talent , had he chosen to exert it , to have dispensed with all such acts of literary petty larceny . Tristram Shandy is no narrative , but a collection of scenes , dialogues , and portraits , humorous or affecting , intermixed ...
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... original . Still , however , there are shades of simplicity thrown into the character of Yorick , which did not exist in that of Sterne . We cannot believe that the jests of the latter were so void of malice prepense , or that his ...
... original . Still , however , there are shades of simplicity thrown into the character of Yorick , which did not exist in that of Sterne . We cannot believe that the jests of the latter were so void of malice prepense , or that his ...
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... original ; and that the former might have been written by many persons , while in his own proper line he stands alone and inimitable . Something of extravagance may , perhaps , attach to Uncle Toby's favourite amusements . Yet in ...
... original ; and that the former might have been written by many persons , while in his own proper line he stands alone and inimitable . Something of extravagance may , perhaps , attach to Uncle Toby's favourite amusements . Yet in ...
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... original geniuses whom England has produced . Dr. Ferriar , who seemed born to trace and detect the various mazes through which Sterne carried on his depredations upon ancient and dusty authors , apologises for the rigour of his inquest ...
... original geniuses whom England has produced . Dr. Ferriar , who seemed born to trace and detect the various mazes through which Sterne carried on his depredations upon ancient and dusty authors , apologises for the rigour of his inquest ...
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Seite 352 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Seite 60 - The learned SMELFUNGUS travelled from Boulogne to Paris from Paris to Rome and so on but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings.
Seite 324 - 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 74 - ... at them, and shook his head. He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again, as if to eat...
Seite 264 - ... 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 114 - ... his chair and bed: a little calendar of small sticks were laid at the head, notched all over with the dismal days and nights he had passed there : — he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap.
Seite 11 - ... the author has not always thought it necessary to write downward, in order to meet the comprehension of children. He has generally suffered the theme to soar, whenever such was its tendency, and when he himself was buoyant enough to follow without an effort. Children possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple, likewise. It is only the artificial and the complex that bewilder them.
Seite 114 - 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 111 - In my return back through the passage, I heard the same words repeated twice over ; and looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage. — " I can't get out, — I can't get out,
Seite 178 - The author was then young, his invention at the height, and his reading fresh in his head. By the assistance of some thinking, and much conversation, he had endeavoured to strip himself of as many real prejudices as he could ; I say real ones, because, under the notion of prejudices, he knew to what dangerous heights some men have proceeded.