| 1886 - 458 páginas
...said, "the same web still, twist the same rope again and again." And Sterne incolumi gravitate aska : "Shall we for ever make new books as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring out of one vessel into another ( Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope, for ever... | |
| 1889 - 922 páginas
...rope again and again," the plagiarist will have, like Sterne, to sail as near the wind as this : " Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries...of one vessel into another? Are we for ever to be untwisting the same rope 1 " Short of such cynical effrontery as this — perhaps the only instance... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1891 - 510 páginas
...Hogarth was thinking of "Tristram Shandy," for vols. ii. and iv. of which he supplied frontispieces. " Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries...mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?" (vol. v., ch. i.). Sterne, in his turn, had characteristically borrowed this lament over borrowing... | |
| Tristram Shandy, Gent. - 1893 - 490 páginas
...!" Tell me, ye learned, shall we for ever be adding so much to the bulk,—so little to the stock ? Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries...ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope! for ever in the same track,—for ever at the same pace ? Shall we be destined, to the days of eternity,... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1895 - 276 páginas
...' Tell me, ye learned, shall we for ever be adding so much to the bulk,— so little to the stock ? Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries...for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope ! for ever in the same track, — for ever at the same pace ? Shall we be destined, to the days of... | |
| 1896 - 820 páginas
...enough one finds, on comparing the two volumes, that the very passage in which Sterne complains : " Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring out of one vessel into another?" has been stolen from Burton. It is very comical to hear one plagiarist... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1900 - 256 páginas
...much to the bull — so little to the stock ? Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries MS make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel...ever to be twisting, and untwisting the same rope ? for ever in the same track — for ever at the same pace ? Shall we be destined to the days of eternity,... | |
| Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 616 páginas
...same web still, twist the same rope again and again." " Shall we for ever," says Sterne, " make our books as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring...for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope ? " z His assumption of a learning that he did not possess, and his appropriation of sundry sentences... | |
| Annette M. B. Meakin - 1903 - 380 páginas
...Tell me, ye learned, shall we for ever be adding so much to the bulk— so little to the stock ? " Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries...mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another ? " —STERNE. THIS volume is not intended to be a compendium of all the information that has been... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 618 páginas
...rare!" Tell me, ye learned, shall we for ever be adding so much to the bulk — so little to the stock? Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries...ever to be twisting, and untwisting the same rope ? for ever in the same track — for ever at the same pace ? Shall we be destined to the days of eternity,... | |
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