 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Irish literature - 1904 - 530 pages
...and 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 his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter. Sometimes, in his wild way of talking, he... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1910 - 432 pages
...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 his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter. Sometimes in his wild way of thinking, he... | |
 | William Chislett - Comparative literature - 1918 - 190 pages
...days and 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 his way, however sheltered and protected, 40 Ivor Campbell in "Laurence Sterne" ("Oxford and Cambridge Review," IX,... | |
 | William Chislett - Comparative literature - 1918 - 178 pages
...days and 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 his way, however sheltered and protected, 40 Ivor Campbell in "Laurence Sterne" ("Oxford and Cambridge Review,'* IX,... | |
 | J. Prinsen - English fiction - 1925 - 558 pages
...and 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...folly: and then, whenever it fell in his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter." Sterne begint een caput aldus: „I think,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 292 pages
...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...folly ; and then, whenever it fell in his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter. Sometimes, in his wild way of talking, he... | |
 | John B. McKee - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 126 pages
...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 his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter. . .... | |
 | John Beer - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 50 pages
...days and 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'; 18 as Mark Loveridge has pointed out, moreover, many of the physical misfortunes in the novel, including... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross, William McKean Brown Memorial Publication Fund - Authors, English - 1925 - 356 pages
...and 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...folly; and then, whenever it fell in his way, however shel- / tered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter. "In plain truth, he ... was altogether... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1793 - 222 pages
...grave or ferious of mortal men for days and weeks together ; but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war againft it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for tolly i and then, whenever it fell into his way, however Dickered and protected, he leldom gave it... | |
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Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to 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 was an enemy to the affectation... 
