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Love of animals is commendable commendable" he emphasized this slight concession "but race horses always appeal to me as instruments of the Evil One." "It wasn't the horse's fault at all, Mr. Dolman," Allis interposed, "but just a depraved human's. It was the boy Shandy's fault." "I wasn't thinking of one horse," continued the minister, airily; "I meant race horses in general." "I think Mr.
Better accounts of Mrs. Sterne arrived a few weeks later, and the husband's consolations were not required. Meanwhile the idyll of Captain Shandy's love-making was gradually approaching completion; and there are signs to be met with in the author's correspondence, that is to say, and not in the work itself that he was somewhat impatient to be done with it, at any rate for the time.
In the first flush of Tristram Shandy's success, and in the first piquancy of the contrast between the grave profession of the writer and the unbounded license of the book, he could safely reckon on as large and curious a public for any sermons whatever from the pen of Mr. Yorick.
"Here's more tobacco spit, where the cutt'roat divil stood when he opened the winder." Looking down, his eye caught the glint of something bright deep in the straw. He dug his hand down into the mass and brought up a knife. "Whose is that, Ned?" he queried. Carter looked at it closely. "Shandy's," he answered; "I'll swear to that.
Let it remain there, my dear, said the lieutenant. He did not offer to speak to me, till I had walked up close to his bed-side: If you are captain Shandy's servant, said he, you must present my thanks to your master, with my little boy's thanks along with them, for his courtesy to me; if he was of Levens's said the lieutenant.
"My misfortunes, like Tristram Shandy's, began before my birth and in the same way, exactly the same way. My father was a scholar and a gentleman who dreamed his life away over the campaigns of the great captains instead of attempting to become a great captain himself.
There is at least, said Yorick, a great deal of reason and plain sense in captain Shandy's opinion of love; and 'tis amongst the ill-spent hours of my life, which I have to answer for, that I have read so many flourishing poets and rhetoricians in my time, from whom I never could extract so much I wish, Yorick, said my father, you had read Plato; for there you would have learnt that there are two Loves I know there were two Religions, replied Yorick, amongst the ancients one for the vulgar, and another for the learned; but I think One Love might have served both of them very well
She often told me, quoth Trim, she did it for the love of Christ I did not like it. I believe, Trim, we are both wrong, said my uncle Toby we'll ask Mr. Yorick about it to-night at my brother Shandy's so put me in mind; added my uncle Toby.
Yorick's curate was smoking a pipe by the fire, but said not a word, good or bad, to comfort the youth." The whole scene is absolute life; and the dialogue between the Corporal and the parson, as related by the former to his master, with Captain Shandy's comments thereon, is almost Shakspearian in its excellence.
He would stop at nothing to attain that end; his avaricious mind, stimulated by Crane's promise, came at once to the disturbing element in the pleasant prospect, Shandy's report of Lucretia's good form. "Did you find out anything about Porter's mare Lucretia? I know White Moth's form; both fit and well. The Dutchman holds him safe over the Derby journey."
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