| Walter Sichel - Authors, English - 1910 - 420 pages
...such ; — for when gravity was wanted he could be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days or weeks together ; but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance or for folly ; and then, whenever it fell in... | |
| William Chislett - Comparative literature - 1918 - 190 pages
...— not to gravity as such ; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave and serious of mortal men for days and weeks together ; but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance or for folly; and then, whenever it fell in his... | |
| William Chislett - Comparative literature - 1918 - 178 pages
...— not to gravity as such ; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave and serious of mortal men for days and weeks together ; but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance or for folly; and then, whenever it fell in his... | |
| J. Prinsen - English fiction - 1925 - 558 pages
...— not to gravity as such; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; — but...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly: and then, whenever it fell in... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 300 pages
...gravity; not to gravity as such; for where gravity was wanted, he would be the mosl: grave or serious or mortal men for days and weeks together ; — but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly; and then, whenever it fell in... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 292 pages
...gravity; not to gravity as such; for where gravity was wanted, he would be the mosl: grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together ; — but he was an enemy to the affe&ation of it, and declared open war againsl: it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or... | |
| John B. McKee - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 126 pages
...had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity; — not to gravity as such . . . but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly; and then, whenerver it fell in... | |
| John Beer - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 50 pages
...gravity; - not to gravity as such; - for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly'; 18 as Mark Loveridge has pointed... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1793 - 222 pages
...his nature to gravity l not to gravity as fuch for, where gravity was wanted, he would be the moft grave and ferious of mortal men for days and weeks...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war again ft it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly ; and then, whenever it fell in... | |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross, William McKean Brown Memorial Publication Fund - Authors, English - 1925 - 356 pages
...— not to gravity as such; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; — but...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for / folly; and then, whenever it fell in... | |
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