The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Band 2

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J.F. Taylor, 1904
 

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Seite xxxv - He will march, said my uncle Toby, rising up from the side of the bed with one shoe off. An' please your Honour, said the Corporal, he will never march, but to his grave. He shall march, cried my uncle Toby, marching the foot which had a shoe on, though without advancing an inch, — he shall march to his regiment.
Seite xxix - The next time Mr. Selwyn calls, show him up : — If I am alive I shall be glad to see him, and if I am dead he will be glad to see me.
Seite xxxi - How many Caesars and Pompeys, he would say, by mere inspiration of the names, have been rendered worthy of them ! And how many, he would add, are there, who might have done exceeding well in the world had not their characters and spirits been totally depressed and Nicodemus'd into nothing!
Seite 43 - Great Apollo! if thou art in a giving humour - give me - I ask no more, but one stroke of native humour, with a single spark of thy own fire along with it - and send Mercury, with the rules and compasses, if he can be spared, with my compliments to - no matter.
Seite 221 - ... and the transactions and opinions of it to take up as much description — And for what reason should they be cut short? as at this rate I should just live 364 times faster than I should write — It must follow, an...
Seite xxi - Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine ; they are the life, the soul of reading ! take them out of this book, for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them; — one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it : restore them to the writer; — he steps forth like a bridegroom ; — bids Allhail ; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
Seite xxxiv - ... but he was of a peaceful, placid nature, — no jarring element in it, — all was mixed up so kindly within him; my uncle Toby had scarce a heart to retaliate upon a fly. — Go...
Seite 42 - tis out of all plumb, my lord, quite an irregular thing — not one of the angles at the four corners was a right angle — I had my rule and compasses, &c., my lord, in my pocket.
Seite xxxvii - True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and cheerfully round.
Seite xxxv - He shall be supported, said my uncle Toby; -He'll drop at last, said the corporal, and what will become of his boy? He shall not drop, said my uncle Toby, firmly. A-well-o'day, — do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point, — the poor soul will die: He shall not die, by G — , cried my uncle Toby.

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