 | John Timbs - 1856 - Počet stránok 378
...The honour of a maid is her name ; and no legacy is so rich as honesty. — Shakspeare. ccccxxvuI. 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, ustice... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - Počet stránok 410
...own oven, and then eats the true bread of knowledge, we bid a cordial welcome." SOUTHEY'S DOCTOU. " I WOULD go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of...pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." STERNE. SOUTHEY remarks that there are some persons who are willing to be pleased, and thankful for... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - Počet stránok 426
...oven, and then eats the true bread of knowledge, we bid a cordial wt-Icome." SOUTHEY'* DOCTOB. '• 1 WOULD go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of...pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." STERNE. SOUTHEY remarks that there are some persons who are willing to be pleased, and thankful for... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - Počet stránok 384
...LITEEATURE A STRAY LEAF .... Page V 1 43 74 115 161 211 239 282 317 356 Kit INTRODUCTORY. "I WOITLD go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of that man...pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." STERNE. SOTTTHEY remarks, that there are some persons who are willing to be pleased, and thankful for... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - Počet stránok 378
...PULPIT PECULIABITIES 282 THE LABCENIES OF LITEBATUBE . 317 A STBAY LEAF . . . . . . 356 INTRODUCTORY. "1 WOULD go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will giro up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands —be pleased, he knows not why, and cares... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - Počet stránok 292
...manhood pick up something useful to itself here ? " I would go fifty miles on foot," says an old writer, "to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." This spirit often renders young people the best judges of a book or of a conversation. They never take... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - Počet stránok 608
...episodes and digressions, strung together without any attempt at regularity or order. The reader must ' give up the reins of his imagination into his author's...pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.' Through the whole novel, however, over its mists and absurdities, shines his little family band of... | |
 | 1861 - Počet stránok 532
...worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hjind of that man, whose generous heart will give up the...pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore !' " YE ORIGIN OF YE HOODED SNAKE OF INDIA. A WOEFUL BALLAD. IT is of a doleful history, That I have... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1864 - Počet stránok 440
...ing ! I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand ofthat man whose generous heart will give up the reins of...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... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1864 - Počet stránok 478
...He declares he would tramp fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that rare description of reader " whose generous heart will give up the reins of his...pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." Of all books in the world did " Tristram " need that pleasant laisser-fuire condition. He then rambled... | |
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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. 
