| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...trust me — when to gratify a private appetite , it is once resolved upon, that an innocent and an helpless creature shall be sacrificed , it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket Chap. xj. DIDACTIC PIECES. 8S where it has strayed , to make a fire to offer it up with. STERNE. CHAP.... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1804 - 374 sider
...an innocent and an helpless creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to pick up sticks enow from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to ofier it up with. Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but... | |
| Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 sider
...resolved upon that an innocent creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to pick up slicks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with." STUNK. How often have I seen her majesty, when yet in the early day of youth, turn from its impetuous... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 sider
...gratify a private appetite, It is once resolved upon, that an innocent and an helpless crearture jhall bp sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it is strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with. . . STERNS. . ,,:. , ,, ' , ,. CBAt'. XI. HAMLET'S... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 sider
...and trust me—when to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon, that an innocent and a helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy...it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with. L2 SECTION VIL Of Successful Speaking. The orator will derive still farther advantages from. a numerous... | |
| John Ferriar - 1812 - 426 sider
...innocent and an help" less creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an " easy matter to pick up sticks enow " from any thicket where it has strayed, " to make a fire to offer it up with." This is taken, almost verbatim, from the BACONIANA. I have said that Sterne took the hint of his marbled... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 408 sider
...afifietite, it is once resolved upon, that an innocent and an helpless creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make afire to offer it up with. Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1816 - 304 sider
...helpless ereature shall he saerifieed, 'tis an easy matter to piek up stieks enow from any thieket where it has strayed, to make a fire to off'er it up with. Yoriek satree ever heard this sad vatieination of his destiny r^ad ovt-r to him, hut with a tear stealing... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 sider
...and trust me—when to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon, that an innocent and a helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy...it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with. I . Section Til. OF SUCCESSFUL SPEAKING. It is only necessary, in fact, for the orator to keep one... | |
| William Benbow - 1823 - 336 sider
...the desolation of a child. Sterne somewhere says — " When to gratify a private appetite it is once resolved upon that an innocent and helpless creature...has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with." The remark is painfully true, and in a case like Parson Eyre's, facts, and not motives are t<5 be judged;... | |
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