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This tale, cried Slawkenbergius, somewhat exultingly, has been reserved by me for the concluding tale of my whole work; knowing right well, that when I shall have told it, and my reader shall have read it thro' 'twould be even high time for both of us to shut up the book; inasmuch, continues Slawkenbergius, as I know of no tale which could possibly ever go down after it. 'Tis a tale indeed!
Shandy's compliments to orators is very sensible that Slawkenbergius has here changed his metaphor which he is very guilty of: that as a translator, Mr.
This, says Hafen Slawkenbergius, constitutes the Catastrophe or Peripeitia of my tale and that is the part of it I am going to relate. We left the stranger behind the curtain asleep he enters now upon the stage. What dost thou prick up thy ears at? 'tis nothing but a man upon a horse was the last word the stranger uttered to his mule.
As an illustrator of sacred history, the world may one day return to John Martin. Anders Zorn what's in a name? Possibly the learned and amiable father of Tristram Shandy or that formidable pedant Professor Slawkenbergius might find much to arouse his interest in the patronymic of the great Swedish painter and etcher.
On the twenty-eighth the courteous stranger had promised to return to Strasburg. In all my ten tales, in all my ten decades, have I Slawkenbergius tied down every tale of them as tightly to this rule, as I have done this of the stranger and his nose.
My father put on his spectacles bit his lip and tore out the leaf in a passion. O Slawkenbergius! thou faithful analyzer of my Disgrazias thou sad foreteller of so many of the whips and short turns which on one stage or other of my life have come slap upon me from the shortness of my nose, and no other cause, that I am conscious of.
Slawkenbergius supposes the word intended was unconvinced, but her strength would not enable her to finish her letter.
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