 I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Strana 173podľa Dugald Stewart - 1827Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - Počet stránok 768
...miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into...pleased he knows not why, and cares not. wherefore. Great Apollo ! if thou art in a giving humour, — give me — I ask no more, but one stroke of native... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - Počet stránok 412
...the most tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. STERNE. CHAP. IV. . * ' ' ON NEGROES. \VitEN Tom, an' please your honour, got to the shop there was... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - Počet stránok 762
...miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that nun whose generous g Great Apollo ! if thou art in a giving humour, — give me — I ask no more, but one stroke of native... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - Počet stránok 382
...most tormenting ! — I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, be pleased, he knows not ivhy, and cares not wherefore. XII. — Parallel bet-ween Pope and Drydcn. IN acquired knowledge, the... | |
 | 1825 - Počet stránok 830
...exclamation of the witty author of the Sentimental Journey, " How I love the man, who will give up the reins into his author's hands, be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore 1 !" While it is not my design " to explain away all that appears miraculous," I hare been taught by... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - Počet stránok 412
...the most tormenting 1 I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. STERNE. CHAP. IV. ON NEGROES. Tom, an* please your honour, got to the shop there was nobody in it but... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 244
...author they are reading. " I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into...pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore," says he, and it is a remark worthy to be kept in remembrance by all who read lor amusement. — These... | |
 | University of Glasgow - 1836
...present, " I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart would give up the reins of his imagination into his author's...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." Following the example of their predecessors, and having the same end in view, that of investing the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - Počet stránok 524
...the following passage : " I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss (he hand of that man whose generous heart, will give up the reins of his. imagination...Mr. Burke has expressed the same opinion in stronger arid less equivocal terms. " The pleasures of imagination," he observes, " are much higher than any... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Počet stránok 354
...— Shakspeare. ccccxxvm. I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. — Sterne. CCCCXXIX. The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. The middle way is, justice... | |
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