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Only remember this, that I am no sentimentalist or charitable person, but a man who lives rigorously to himself; and that if I make the proposal, it is for my own ends it is because I perceive clearly an advantage to myself. And now, reflect. 'I shall be very glad. I do not see what else I can do. I thank you, sir, most kindly, and I will try to be useful, said the boy.
We may well envy them their optimism of which this anecdote of an amiable wit and sentimentalist presents an extreme instance, but still, a true instance, and worthy of regard in the spontaneous testimony to that trust in the life of the earth, triumphant at last in the felicity of her children.
The literary life of Sterne was a short one: it was a blaze of existence, and it turned his head. With his personal life we are only acquainted by tradition. Was the great sentimentalist himself unfeeling, dissolute, and utterly depraved? Bumey's collections, that "He was more dissolute in his conduct than his writings, and generally drove every female away by his ribaldry.
Sterne, the Superfine Reviewer thinks, "was a true sentimentalist, because he was ABOVE ALL THINGS a true gentleman." The flattering inference is obvious: let us be thankful for having an elegant moralist watching over us, and learn, if not too old, to imitate his high-bred politeness and catch his unobtrusive grace. If we are unwarrantably familiar, we know who is not.
Jean Kostka, as already indicated, is a spiritual sentimentalist; he has passed by a rapid transition common to such natures from the Gnostic transcendental initiate to the pious Catholic devotee, and he will make an excellent Lourdes pilgrim. As there will be no need to recur to him again, it will be permissible to justify my criticism by some account of his personal experiences.
The earliest notice which I have found of him from an outsider is a passage in Crabb Robinson's diaries. Robinson met him on July 10, 1811, and describes him as a 'pious sentimentalist and moralist, who spoke of his prospects 'with more indifference than was perhaps right in a layman. The notice is oddly characteristic.
His vanity makes him but a prudish lover, who desires to woo less than to be wooed; and at all times and through all moods he remains the primeval sentimentalist.
This idea is destroying your will, your brain, your religion, and will finally sap the moral fiber of your character. It is the greatest sentimentalist." Gordon grunted. "It's funny how you have the faculty of putting the opposition in terms of its last absurdity." "Grunt if you like; I'm in dead earnest. You want to put on the brakes. You've struck the down grade.
Well, Edward was the English gentleman; but he was also, to the last, a sentimentalist, whose mind was compounded of indifferent poems and novels. He just looked up to the roof of the stable, as if he were looking to Heaven, and whispered something that I did not catch.
Portia's brusk disdain of rhetoric, her habit of reducing questions to their least denominator of common sense, carried a constant and perfectly involuntary criticism of her mother's ampler and more emotional style made her suspect that Portia regarded her as a sentimentalist.
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