The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 8. köideR. and J. Dodsley, 1765 |
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Page 5 - That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best I'm sure it is the most religious for I begin with writing the first sentence and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
Page 115 - Venus herself, which certainly were as venereal a pair of eyes as ever stood in a head, there never was an eye of them all so fitted to rob my uncle Toby of his repose as the very eye at which he was looking. It was not, madam, a rolling eye, a romping, or a wanton one; nor was it an eye...
Page 115 - ... so fitted to rob my uncle Toby of his repose, as the very eye, at which he was looking it was not, Madam, a rolling eye a romping or a wanton one nor was it an eye sparkling...
Page 111 - Do look into it," said she. Honest soul! thou didst look into it with as much innocency of heart as ever child looked into a raree show-box; and 'twere as much a sin to have hurt thee. If a man will be peeping of his own accord into things of that nature, I've nothing to say to it. My uncle Toby never did: and I will...
Page 113 - ... matter floating in it — There is nothing, my dear paternal uncle! but one lambent delicious fire, furtively shooting out from every part of it, in all directions, into thine If thou lookest, uncle Toby, in search of this mote one moment longer thou art undone.
Page 111 - ... it is not in the white — In saying which, Mrs Wadman edged herself close in beside my uncle Toby, and squeezing herself down upon the corner of his bench, she gave him an opportunity of doing it without rising up Do look into it — said she.
Page 110 - Shandy, said Mrs. Wadman, holding up her cambric handkerchief to her left eye, as she approached the door of my uncle Toby's sentry-box— a mote— or sand— or something— I know not what, has got into this eye of mine— do look into it— it is not in the white— In saying which, Mrs.
Page 112 - Galileo looked for a spot in the sun. In vain! for by all the powers which animate the organ, Widow Wadman's left eye shines this moment as lucid as her right: there is neither mote...