The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Band 5

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R. and J. Dodsley, 1762
 

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Seite 35 - tis terrible no way — for consider, brother Toby, — when we are — death is not; — and when death is — we are not.
Seite 87 - Corporal, clapping the forefinger of his right hand upon the thumb of his left, and counting round his hand, — there was Cutts's, — Mackay's, — Angus's, — Graham's, — and Leven's, all cut to pieces ; — and so had the English Life-guards, too, had it not been for some regiments upon the right, who marched up boldly to their relief, and received the enemy's fire in their faces, before any one of their own platoons discharged a musket. — They'll go to Heaven for it, added Trim.
Seite 44 - Jonathan, (for that was the coachman's name) or Shrovetide, or any tide or time past, to this? Are we not here now, continued the corporal, (striking the end of his stick perpendicularly upon the floor, so as to give an idea of health and stability) — and are we not — (dropping his hat upon the ground) gone!
Seite 3 - Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Are we for ever to be twisting, and untwisting the same rope? for ever in the same track — for ever at the same pace?
Seite 47 - The descent of the hat was as if a heavy lump of clay had been kneaded into the crown of it.— Nothing could have expressed the sentiment of mortality, of which it was the type and forerunner, like it ; — his hand seemed to vanish from under it ; — it fell dead ; — the Corporal's eye fixed upon it as upon a corpse ; — and Susannah burst into a flood of tears.
Seite 47 - Are we not here now;" continued the corporal, "and are we not" — (dropping his hat plumb upon the ground — and pausing before he pronounced the word) — "gone! in a moment?" The descent of the hat was as if a heavy lump of clay had been kneaded into the crown of it. Nothing could have expressed the sentiment of mortality, of which it was the type and forerunner...
Seite 147 - Did my father, mother, uncle, aunt, brothers or sisters, ever see a white bear ? What would they give ? How would they behave ? How would the white bear have behaved? Is he wild? Tame? Terrible? Rough ? Smooth ? — Is the white bear worth seeing?
Seite 42 - A green satin night-gown of my mother's, which had been twice scoured, was the first idea which Obadiah's exclamation brought into Susannah's head. Well might Locke write a chapter upon the imperfections of words.
Seite 47 - There was nothing in the sentence — 'twas one of your self-evident truths we have the advantage of hearing every day; and if Trim had not trusted more to his hat than his head — he had made nothing at all of it. "Are we not here now;" continued the corporal, "and are we not" — (dropping his hat plumb upon the ground — and pausing before he pronounced the word) — "gone! in a moment?

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