The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Volume 1R. and J. Dodsley, 1760 - 220 pages |
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Page 3 - Pray, my Dear,' quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' 'Good G — !' cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, ' Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question ? ' Pray, what was your father saying ? Nothing.
Page 59 - English without any periphrasis, — and too oft without much distinction of either person, time, or place; — so that when mention was made of a pitiful or an ungenerous proceeding, he never gave himself a moment's time to reflect who was the Hero of the piece, what his station, or how far he had power to hurt him hereafter; but if it was a dirty action, — without more ado, — The man was a dirty fellow...
Page 161 - I was just going, for example, to have given you the great outlines of my uncle Toby's most whimsical character; — when my aunt Dinah and the coachman came across us, and led us a vagary some millions of miles into the very heart of the planetary system: Notwithstanding all this, you perceive that the drawing of my uncle Toby's character went on gently all the time...
Page 1 - I WISH either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me...
Page 164 - I have constructed the main work and the adventitious parts of it with such intersections, and have so complicated and involved the digressive and progressive movements, one wheel within another, that the whole machine, in general, has been kept a-going; and, what's more, it shall be kept a-going these forty years, if it pleases the Fountain of health to bless me so long with life and good spirits.
Page 164 - I observe, his whole work stands stock still; and, if he goes on with his main work, then there is an end of his digression.
Page 12 - ... head, with his own hands : — And being somewhere between fifty and sixty years of age at the time I have been speaking of, — he had likewise gradually brought some other little family concernments to the same period, in order, as he would often say to my uncle Toby, to get them all out of the way at one time, and be no more plagued and pestered with them the rest of the month.
Page 163 - 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 All hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
Page 10 - ... right glad I am that I have begun the history of myself in the way I have done ; and that I am able to go on, tracing every thing in it, as Horace says, ab ovo.
Page 56 - ... poor Yorick carried not one ounce of ballast; he was utterly unpractised in the world; and, at the age of twenty-six, knew just about as well how to steer his course in it, as a romping, unsuspicious girl of thirteen: So that upon his first setting out, the brisk gale of his spirits, as you will imagine, ran him foul ten times in a day of somebody's tackling...