The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Band 1

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J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883 - 408 Seiten
 

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Seite 193 - be damned," (for tying these knots). "We excommunicate, and anathematise him, and from the thresholds of the holy church of God Almighty we sequester him, that he may be tormented, disposed, and delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, and with those who say unto the Lord God, Depart from us, we desire none of thy ways.
Seite 37 - To sum up all; there are archives at every stage to be look'd into, and rolls, records, documents, and endless genealogies, which justice ever and anon calls him back to stay the reading of: In short, there is no end of it; for my own part, I declare I have been at it these six weeks, making all the speed I possibly could, — and am not yet born...
Seite 120 - WRITING, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is), is but a different name for conversation. As no one, who knows what he is about, in good company would venture to talk all; so no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good-breeding, would presume to think all.
Seite 199 - tis out, my Lord, in every one of its dimensions. Admirable connoisseur! And did you step in, to take a look at the grand picture in your way back? 'Tis a melancholy daub! my Lord; not one principle of the pyramid in any one group! — and what a price! — for there is nothing of the colouring of Titian — the expression of Rubens — the grace of Raphael — the purity of Dominichino — the corregiescity of Corregio — the learning of Poussin — the airs of Guido — the taste of the Carrachis...
Seite 55 - ... and candid disquisition in this matter. You are a person free from as many narrow prejudices of education as most men ; and, if I may presume to penetrate farther into you, — of a liberality of genius above bearing down an opinion, merely because it wants friends. Your sonl — your dear son, from whose sweet and open temper you have so much to expect, — your BILLY, sir, would you for the world have called him JUDAS ? Would you, my dear sir...
Seite 36 - 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...
Seite 10 - Nay, if you come to that, Sir, have not the wisest of men in all ages, not excepting Solomon himself, — have they not had their HOBBY-HORSES,— their running horses, — their coins and their cockle-shells, their drums and their trumpets, their fiddles, their pallets, their maggots, and their butterflies'!
Seite 110 - My sister, mayhap," quoth my uncle Toby, " does not choose to let a man come so near her " ." Make this dash, , — 'tis an Aposiopesis ; • — take the dash away, and write BACKSIDE, 'tis bawdy ;— scratch backside out, and put...
Seite 26 - ... 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 way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter.

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