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The second reason is, That, by laying open this story to the world, I gain an opportunity of informing it, That in case the character of parson Yorick, and this sample of his sermons, is liked, there are now in the possession of the Shandy family, as many as will make a handsome volume, at the world's service, and much good may they do it.
Two females, elegantly attired in mourning, were parading the garden; immediately I saw them I thought of the beautiful Eliza; she to whom the fickle Yorick swore eternal attachment, and then "lit up his heart at the shrine of another," leaving Eliza to wonder " that fresh features Have such a charm for us poor human creatures."
At about the time when Bridges and Yorick were dressing for the performance, a newspaper reporter, wishing to make a few notes of an interview that had been accorded him by a politician staying in the hotel at which the old man had written his long letter, went into the writing-room and made use of the desk where the actor had sat earlier in the evening.
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
And pray, said my uncle Toby, leaning upon Yorick, as he and my father were helping him leisurely down the stairs don't be terrified, madam, this stair-case conversation is not so long as the last And pray, Yorick, said my uncle Toby, which way is this said affair of Tristram at length settled by these learned men?
From Miss Fourmantelle, the "dear, dear Kitty," to whom Sterne was making violent love in 1759, the year of the York publication of Tristram Shandy, down to Mrs. Draper, the heroine of the famous "Yorick to Eliza" letters, the list of ladies who seem to have kindled flames in that susceptible breast is almost as long and more real than the roll of mistresses immortalized by Horace. How Mrs.
His real name was buried in the far past. By several members of the company to which he belonged he was often called "Poor Yorick." I asked the leading juvenile of the company young Bridges, who was supposed to attract women to the theatre, and for whose glorification "The Lady of Lyons" was sometimes revived at matinees how the old man had acquired the nickname.
He touched another. "This was Brother Alexander dead two hundred and eighty years. This was Brother Carlo dead about as long." Then he took a skull and held it in his hand, and looked reflectively upon it, after the manner of the grave-digger when he discourses of Yorick. "This," he said, "was Brother Thomas.
This heroic cast produced him inconveniences in many respects in the present it was followed by the fixed resentment of Phutatorius, who, as Yorick had just made an end of his chesnut, rose up from his chair a second time, to let him know it which indeed he did with a smile; saying only that he would endeavour not to forget the obligation.
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.
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