Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued: To which is Prefixed Some Account of the Life of Mr. SterneGeorgian Society, 1902 - 128 Seiten |
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Seite xiv - ... very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit : — it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth...
Seite 106 - Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Seite xiv - Yorick carried not one ounce of ballast; he was utterly unpractised in the world; and at the age of twenty-six, knew just about as well how to steer his course...
Seite xiv - ... utterly unpractised in the world ; and at the age of twenty-six, knew just about as well how to steer his course in it, as a romping, unsuspicious girl of thirteen...
Seite xiv - For aught I know there might be some mixture of unlucky wit at the bottom of such Fracas: — For, to speak the truth, Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity; not to gravity as such, for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; — but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly, and then, whenever it fell in his...
Seite xiv - Gravity was an arrant scoundrel ; and he would add, — of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth, than by pocketpicking and shop-lifting in seven.
Seite 29 - ... all our misfortunes. I could not refrain repeating with Pope, Why charge mankind on Heav'n their own offence, And call their woes, the crimes of Providence ? Blind, who themselves their miseries create, And perish by their folly, not their fate.
Seite xv - ... twas a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that, with all its pretensions, — it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, — viz. A mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind; — which definition of gravity, Yorick, with great imprudence, would say, deserved to be wrote in letters of gold.
Seite xiv - ... twas with such he had generally the ill luck to get the most entangled. For aught I know there might be some mixture of unlucky wit at the bottom of such Fracas:— For, to speak the truth, Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity...
Seite xv - But, in plain truth, he was a man unhackneyed and unpractised in the world, and was altogether as indiscreet and foolish on every other subject of discourse, where policy is wont to impress restraint.