SterneHarper & brothers, 1901 - 173 páginas |
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afterwards already Anatomy of Melancholy appears artist become beginning believe brother called CHAPTER character close Cloth course critic daughter dead death doubt effect English fact famous father feel former France French give half Hall hand head heart humour humourist interest Italy Journey kind later learning least less letter literary live London look March matter means mind month nature never observation Paris passage passed perhaps person piece poor present probably published reader reason scene seems sense sent Sentimental sermons soon speak spirits stay Sterne Sterne's story success suppose taken thee things thou thought tion touches Tristram Shandy true turn Uncle volume weeks whole wife writes York
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Página 115 - There was a frankness in my uncle Toby— not the effect of familiarity, but the cause of it — which let you at once into his soul, and showed you the goodness of his nature ; to this there was something in his looks, and voice, and manner superadded, which eternally beckoned to the unfortunate to come and take shelter under him...
Página 114 - Come, Honesty! said I, seeing it was impracticable to pass betwixt him and the gate art thou for coming in, or going out? The ass twisted his head round to look up the street Well — replied I — we'll wait a minute for thy driver: He turned his head thoughtful about, and looked wistfully the opposite way I understand thee perfectly, answered I -If thou takest a wrong step in this affair, he will cudgel thee to death Well!
Página 113 - I thought so, when he was alive, but now that he is dead I think otherwise. I fear the weight of myself and my afflictions together have been too much for him — they have shortened the poor creature's days, and I fear I have them to answer for.
Página 115 - I think so too, said my uncle Toby. When the lieutenant had taken his glass of sack and toast, he felt himself a little revived, and sent down into the kitchen, to let me know, that in about ten minutes he should be glad if I would step up stairs. I believe...
Página 8 - My father was a little smart man, active to the last degree in all exercises, most patient of fatigue and disappointments, of which it pleased God to give him full measure.
Página 115 - I heard the poor gentleman say his prayers last night, said the landlady, very devoutly, and with my own ears, or I could not have believed it.-Are you sure of it? replied the curate.— A soldier, an
Página 92 - ... an author must feel himself, or his reader will not — but I have torn my whole frame into pieces by my feelings — I believe the brain stands as much in need of recruiting as the body — therefore I shall set out for town the twentieth of next month, after having recruited myself a week at York. I might indeed solace myself with my wife ( who is come from France), but in fact I have long been a sentimental being — whatever your Lordship may think to the contrary.
Página 105 - Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another ? Are we for ever to be twisting, and untwisting the same rope ? for ever in the same track — for ever at the same pace...
Página 19 - I know, from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a school, having run in debt, on account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in jail if the parents of her scholars had not raised a subscription for her.. Her son had too much sentiment to have any feeling. A dead ass was more important to him than a living mother.
Página 113 - TWAS by a poor ass, who had just turned in with a couple of large panniers upon his back, to collect eleemosynary turnip-tops...