 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1818 - 588 Seiten
...playfully repeated from Sterne — " I would go fifty miles on foot 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." G 8 CHAP. CHAPTER XL V>'tll ordei'cl home ! —... | |
 | 1820 - 596 Seiten
...Sterne to Bay, — " I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous lieart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore ;" for this is making man a merely passive, when... | |
 | 1820 - 606 Seiten
...venture so far as Sterne to ay, — ** I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's bands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore ;" for this is making man a merely passive,... | |
 | William Gill Thompson - 1821 - 62 Seiten
...miles on foot (says the author of " MAEIA,") •-•'< NOTES. 43 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." "Alas! poor Yoriek!" I would thou wert... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 Seiten
...criticism is the most tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot, 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. STERNE. CHAP. IV. . * ' ' ON NEGROES. \VitEN Tom,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 Seiten
...criticism is the most tormenting ! — I would go fifty miles on foot, 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. XII. — Parallel between Pope and Dryden. IN acquired... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 Seiten
...canting world, — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not •a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that nan whose generous heart will give up the reins of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 Seiten
...canting world, — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting ! 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...criticism is the most tormenting 1 I would go fifty miles on foot, 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. STERNE. CHAP. IV. ON NEGROES. Tom, an* please your... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 Seiten
...following passage : " I would g< fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose ge" nerous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, — " be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." — Mr. Burke has expressed the same opinion in... | |
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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. 
