 | Laurence Sterne - 1873
...halve this matter amicably, and leave him. something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own. 'Tis his turn now ; — I have given an ample description of Dr.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 24 Seiten
...to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own. It is his turn now. ... I have given an ample description of Dr.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1900
...to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own. 'Tis his turn now ; — I have given an ample description of Dr.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1904
...to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own. 'Tis his turn now; — I have given an ample description of Dr Slop's... | |
 | Eva C. van Leewen - 1981 - 232 Seiten
...to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own. (TS, 108 f.) Since Tristram's "work is digressive, and it is progressive... | |
 | John Kevin Newman - 2003 - 572 Seiten
...Letter of Turgenev from Baden-Baden, Feb. 2, 1868, quoted by Shklovsky, Mater'yal i Stil', pp. 86-87. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own." Turgenev's error lay in not recognizing the antiquity of the device.... | |
 | Tom Keymer - 2004 - 270 Seiten
...the author alone but by the collaboration of two increasingly equal participants, author and reader: 'For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own.'5 It is in Tom Jones, however, that the analogy between narrative... | |
 | Richard J. Gerrig - 1993 - 273 Seiten
...to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own" (p. 51 in Iser; p. 79 in Sterne). Even so, Iser demonstrates (1989)... | |
 | Arnold Berleant - 1993 - 207 Seiten
...to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own.12 While giving imagination its due, that century, however, was more... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1996 - 457 Seiten
...to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments...this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own. imagination must now go on with it for a while. Let the reader imagine... | |
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... the truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him. something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying him compliments of this kind, and do... 
