 | William Enfield - 1827 - Počet stránok 412
...— though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting 1 I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - Počet stránok 414
...What was Sterne's opinion upon this point may be guessed from the following passage : " I would g< fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose ge" nerous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, — " be pleased... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 244
...kind of satisfaction which many take in carping at the productions of the author they are reading. " I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of...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
...dangerous in principle, may, after all, be harmlessly applied to such a production as the 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 hands — be pleased he knows not why,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Počet stránok 354
...ccccxxvn. The honour of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty. — Shakspeare. ccccxxvm. I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of...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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - Počet stránok 390
...Johnson. The honour of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty. — Shakspeare. CCCCXXVIIL I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - Počet stránok 420
...though the cant of hypocrisy may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting !— — I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of...his imagination into his author's hands, be pleased, heknows not why, and cares not wherefore. XII. — Parallel between Pope and Dryden. — JOHNSON. IN... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - Počet stránok 524
...this point may be guessed from the following passage : " I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss (he hand of that man whose generous heart, will give up...pleased {he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." — Mr. Burke has expressed the same opinion in stronger arid less equivocal terms. " The pleasures... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1830 - Počet stránok 432
...criticism is the most tormenting ! 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 imaginatien into his author's hands, — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. Great... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1831 - Počet stránok 438
...criticism is the most tormenting! 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...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. Great Apollo ! — if thou art in a giving humor, — give me, — I ask no more, but one stroke of... | |
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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. 
