The Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne, to His Most Intimate Friends: With a Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais. To which are Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Family, Band 3T. Becket, 1776 Comprises 117 letters, including two from correspondents of Sterne. |
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Seite 23 - I (amongst millions) indebted to you for the character of your amiable Uncle Toby ! I declare I would walk ten miles in the dog-days to shake hands with the honest corporal.
Seite 115 - tis true that an author must feel himself, or his reader will not ; — but I have torn my whole frame into pieces by my feelings.
Seite 22 - The first part of my life was rather unlucky, as I was placed in a family who judged ignorance the best and only security for obedience. A little reading and writing I got by unwearied application. — The latter part of my life has been...
Seite 109 - PS My Sentimental Journey will please Mrs. J[ames], and my Lydia — I can answer for those two. It is a subject which works well, and suits the frame of mind I have been in for some time past — I told you my design in it was to teach us to love the world and our fellow creatures better than we do — so it runs most upon those gentler passions and affections, which aid so much to it.
Seite 27 - ... done smarting with it, when your letter of recommendation, in behalf of so many of her brethren and sisters, came to me; — but why her brethren? or yours, Sancho! any more than mine? It is by the finest tints, and most insensible gradations...
Seite 25 - You, who are universally read, and as universally admired, — you could not fail. — Dear sir, think in me you behold the uplifted hands of thousands of my brother Moors. Grief (you pathetically observe) is eloquent: figure to yourself their attitudes, hear their supplicating addresses ! — alas ! you cannot refuse. Humanity must comply ; — in which hope, I beg permission to subscribe myself, Reverend Sir, &c. IS LETTER LXXVI.
Seite 29 - Sancho, exceeds your walk of ten miles in about the same proportion, that a visit of humanity should one of mere form. - - However, if you meant my Uncle Toby more he is your debtor. -- If I can weave the tale I have wrote into the work I am about — 'tis at the service of the afflicted - and a much greater matter ; for in serious truth, it casts a...
Seite 24 - Consider slavery, what it is, how bitter a •draught, and how many millions are made to drink of it.' Of all my favourite authors, not one has drawn a tear in favour of my miserable black brethren excepting yourself and the humane author of Sir George Ellison.
Seite 28 - tis no uncommon thing, my good Sancho, for one half of the world to use the other half of it like brutes, and then endeavour to make 'em so.
Seite 23 - Consider how great a part of our species, in all ages down to this, have been trod under the feet of cruel and capricious tyrants, who would neither hear their cries nor pity their distresses.