| Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 pages
...moral feelings are at all concerned, never fails to write like a good man) — " Were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; I would... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1868 - 690 pages
...the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome, and so on ; but he set... | |
| Literature - 1921 - 868 pages
...the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands chearily together, that waa I in a desart, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections." — "A Sentimental Journey." \X The Zuni Salt Lake This view surprises the traveler upon topping a... | |
| Laurence Sterne, David Herbert - Authors, English - 1872 - 512 pages
...the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections : — if I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; — I would... | |
| 1872 - 320 pages
...want of his nature ; it will give him an object to love; and as Rousseau says : " Were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could do no better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or some melancholy cypress. I would love... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1873 - 440 pages
...the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerilv together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections : — if I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; — I would... | |
| Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers. I declare, that were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could do no better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1882 - 500 pages
...the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections :— if I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; — I would... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 450 pages
...the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections : — if I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; — I would... | |
| Laurence Sterne - British - 1900 - 400 pages
...the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections — If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to — I would... | |
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