| James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 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. Sterns. The Archery of William Tell. "PLACE there... | |
| Charles James Dunphie - 1876 - 390 Seiten
...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 hands — be pleased he knows not why and cares not wherefore." So spake Lawrence Sterne ; and... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 254 Seiten
...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. INCREDULOUS HORROR. — Jfrs. Norton. Thou dost... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 254 Seiten
...the most tormenting1. — 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 u'hy, and cares not wherefore. INCREDULOUS HORROR. J\frs. Norton. Thou dost but... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 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. steme, Trutram Shandy. CULTURE. NOTHING is so improving... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 500 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 horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the eins of his... | |
| George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 Seiten
...criticism is the most tormenting ! 1 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. (292.) CHIVALRY AND PURITANISM. Historians... | |
| William Sloane Kennedy - 1883 - 368 Seiten
...on foot," says Yorick, " 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." pany seated at the table, and at its head the genial... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1883 - 454 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. The Archery of William Tell. " PLACE there... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1883 - 450 Seiten
...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. Great Apollo ! if thou art in a giving humour, —... | |
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