The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. with A Life of the Author written by Himself - Brossura

Tristram Shandy, Gent.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 123627637X ISBN 13: 9781236276377

Casa editrice: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...sound of the word siege, but could neither make head nor tail of it. I'm to preach at Court, next Sunday, said Homenas--run over my notes--so I hummed over Dr. Homenas's notes--The modulation's very well,--it will do, Homenas, if it holds on at this rate--so on I hummed--and a tolerable tune I thought it was; and to this hour, may it please your Reverences, had never found out how low, how flat, how spiritless and jejune it was, but that, all of a sudden, up started an air in the middle of it, so fine, so rich, so heavenly--it carried my soul up with it into the other world. Now, had I (as Montaigne complained in a parallel accident)--had I found the declivity easy, or the ascent accessible--certes I had been outwitted--Your notes, Homenas, I should have said, are good notes--but it was so perpendicular a precipice--so wholly cut off from the rest of the work, that, by the first note I hummed, I found myself flying into the other world, and thence discovered the vale whence I came, so deep, so low, and dismal, that I shall never have the heart to descend into it again. JA dwarf who brings a standard along with him, to measure his own size--take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.--And so much for tearing out of chapters. CHAPTER XXVI.--See if he is not cutting it all into slips, and giving them about him to light their pipes!--'Tis abominable, answered Didius;--it should not go unnoticed, said Doctor Kysarcius--(J£?"He was of the Kysarcii of the low Countries. Methinks, said Didius, half rising from his chair, in order to remove a bottle and a tall decanter which stood in a direct line betwixt him and Yorick,--you might have spared this sarcastic stroke, and have hit upon a more proper place, Mr. Yorick, or at least upon a more proper o...

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• Editore: RareBooksClub.com
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 123627637X
• ISBN 13: 9781236276377
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 178