...includes a reference to touch and the effect of the weather on people with a disorder of the nerves: Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who lift'st him up to...

...other answers, tho' distant."31 And thus Laurence Sterne's 1768 apotheosis of the sensible condition: Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who lifts him up to...

...Tränenseligkeit die antizipierte Weinseligkeit in jeder Hinsicht aussticht, selbst noch in puncto Wirrnis: - Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw - and 'tis thou who lifts him up to HEAVEN...

...sensibility that epitomizes Sterne's way of proceeding. Here is a slightly truncated version of it: Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw—and 'tis thou who lifts him up to HEAVEN—eternal...

...items. Thus Yorick's persistent memory of the pose and location of Maria ("in every scene of festivity 1 saw Maria in the back-ground of the piece, sitting pensive under her poplar" [ASJ 155.5-7]) to some extent foretells the cultural resonance of her image. For more on the depiction...

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...at her girdle'.16 It is the episode that Sterne concludes with the famous effusion that begins: — Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who lifts him up to...

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