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"And from the wise, M. le Comte," replied I, making him a bow, "is enough." The Count de Faineant embraced me with more ardor than ever I was embraced by mortal man. For three weeks together I was of every man's opinion I met. "Pardi! ce M. Yorick a autant d'esprit que nous autres." "Il raisonne bien," said another. "C'est un bon enfant," said a third.
The critics united in praising this as being a positive addition to the Yorick adventures, as conceived and related in Sterne’s finest manner. After the lapse of more than a century, one can acknowledge the pathos, the humanity of the incident, but the manner is not that of Sterne.
My uncle Toby never felt the consciousness of his existence with more complacency than what the corporal's, and his own reflections, made him do at that moment; he lighted his pipe, Yorick drew his chair closer to the table, Trim snuff'd the candle, my father stirr'd up the fire, took up the book, cough'd twice, and begun. 'Twas natural, said Yorick.
I should only have to present to the reader a man, whose conversation was nothing but alternate jest and quotation a due union of Yorick and Partridge. This would, however, be rendering great injustice to the character I wish to delineate.
I lay a slight stress upon one of them, replied Yorick the act, especially where it ends there, in my opinion lays as little obligation upon the child, as it conveys power to the father. You are wrong, said my father argutely, and for this plain reason.... I own, added my father, that the offspring, upon this account, is not so under the power and jurisdiction of the mother.
How splendid must have been the ideal that filled the mind of a poet who created a Tom Jones and a Sophonisba! How deeply and strongly our hearts are moved by the jests of Yorick when he pleases!
But, alack! all fields have not a river or a spring running besides them; every child, Yorick, has not a parent to point it out. The whole entirely depends, added my father, in a low voice, upon the auxiliary verbs, Mr. Yorick. Had Yorick trod upon Virgil's snake, he could not have looked more surprised.
From the midwife it is an easy transition to her patron and protector, the incumbent of the parish, and this, in its turn, suggests a long excursus on the character, habits, appearance, home, friends, enemies, and finally death, burial, and epitaph of the Rev. Mr. Yorick. Thence we return to Mr. and Mrs.
He was a person of low birth and character; but esteemed, from his love of coarse humour and vulgar enterprise, a man of infinite parts a sort of Yorick by the set most congenial to Tyrrell's tastes. By this undue reputation, and the levelling habit of gaming, to which he was addicted, he was raised, in certain societies, much above his proper rank: need I say that this man was Thornton?
Voila un persiflage! cried the Count. As the passport was directed to all lieutenant-governors, governors, and commandants of cities, generals of armies, justiciaries, and all officers of justice, to let Mr. Yorick the king's jester, and his baggage, travel quietly along, I own the triumph of obtaining the passport was not a little tarnish'd by the figure I cut in it.
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