 | 1841 - 658 páginas
...mutilate every thing in it down to the prudish humour of every particular. I will, however, do ray best — though laugh, my Lord, I will, and as loud as I can too." The truth is, that Warburton at one time lived in fear lest he should figure in Tristram Shandy. To... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 760 páginas
...giving it, I may find it very hard, in writing such a book as " Tristram Shandy," to mutilate everything in it down to the prudish humour of every particular....laugh, my lord, I will, and as loud as I can too. 17GO.] LETTER FROM STERNE TO WARBURTON. 505 ' With regard to the " Lyric Odes," all I know of them... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 700 páginas
...Tristram Shandy," to mutilate everything in it down to the prudish humour of every particular. I Avill, however, do my best ; though laugh, my lord, I will, and as loud as I can too. ' With regard to the " Lyric Odes," all I know of them is this : that the first ode, which places me and the author in a... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1864 - 478 páginas
...anonymous medical friend on the text, " de mortuis, &c."). " I will, however, do my best," he goes on, " though laugh, my Lord, I will, and as loud as I can too." He then clears himself from any participation in "the Odes, as they are called;" and there is no reason... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 414 páginas
...giving it, I may find it very hard, in writing such a book as ' Tristram Shandy,' to mutilate everything in it down to the prudish humour of every particular....will, and as loud as I can too. With regard to the ' Lyric Odes,' all I know of them is this : that the first ode, which places me and the author in a... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 418 páginas
...giving it, I may find it very hard, in writing such a book as ' Tristram Shandy,' to mutilate everything in it down to the prudish humour of every particular....will, and as loud as I can too. With regard to the ' Lyric Odes,' all I know of them is this : that the first ode, which places me and the author in a... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 418 páginas
...giving it, I may find it very hard, in writing such a book as ' Tristram Shandy,' to mutilate everything in it down to the prudish humour of every particular....will, and as loud as I can too. With regard to the ' Lyric Odes,' all I know of them is this : that the first ode, which places me and the author in a... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1894 - 182 páginas
...noticeable because of the half apologetic, half defiant tone of it ("I will, however, do my best ; but laugh, my lord, I will, and as loud as I can too"), and for the audacious assertion, either equivocal or unintelligible, that the writer had "for nineteen... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1899 - 192 páginas
...noticeable because of the half apologetic, half defiant tone of it ("I will, however, do my best ; but laugh, my lord, I will, and as loud as I can too"), and for the audacious assertion, either equivocal or unintelligible, that the writer had "for nineteen... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 740 páginas
...the same time, it is hard in a work of the riotous complexion of Tristram ' to mutilate everything in it, down to the prudish humour of every particular. ' ' I will, however, do my best,' he goes on, 'though laugh, my Lord, I will, and as loud as I can too. ' He then clears himself from... | |
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... to any mortal by anything which I think can look like the least violation either of decency or good manners ; and yet, with all the caution of a heart void of offence or intention of giving it, I may find it very hard, in writing such a book as '... 
