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Once established in his hotel, the author betakes himself to the theater: this very act he feels will bring upon him the censure of the critics, for Yorick went to the theater too. “A
The first notice of Sterne’s death is probably that in the Adress-Comptoir-Nachrichten of Hamburg in the issue of April 6, 1768, not three weeks after the event itself. The brief announcement is a comparison with Cervantes. The Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen chronicles the death of Yorick, August 29, 1768.
The rude materials, of which the highest and noblest feelings of educated minds are formed, will be found amongst the most grovelling and base; and so this vulgar curiosity, which, combined with other feelings, prompted an ignorant and illiterate mob to exhume Miles, the once fat butcher, in a different form tempted the philosophic Hamlet to moralise upon the skull of Yorick.
Nearly two pages are inserted here, in which Yorick discourses on the difference between a sentimental traveler and an avanturier.
Of that, answered my father, he will have the advantage, when he sees the Pyramids. Now every word of this, quoth my uncle Toby, is Arabic to me. I wish, said Yorick, 'twas so, to half the world. Not without a court martial? cried my uncle Toby.
The terrible exultation of Cassius, after the fall of Cæsar, the ecstasy of Lanciotto when he first believes himself to be loved by Francesca, the delirium of Yorick when he can no longer restrain the doubts that madden his jealous and wounded soul, the rapture of King James over the vindication of his friend Seyton, whom his suspicions have wronged those were among his distinctively great moments, and his image as he was in such moments is worthy to live among the storied traditions and the bright memories of the stage.
The ghost from the other world is a mere piece of stage scenery; to the real sentiment belongs the frank paganism of Hamlet as he holds the skull, this is the end of Yorick, and that anything of Yorick may still live except these mouldering bones does not even occur to Hamlet as a question.
Pankraz loses the sympathy of the reader, involuntarily and irresistibly conceded him, and becomes an inhuman freak of absurdity, beyond our interest. Pankraz is brought into disaster by his slavish following of suggestions aroused through fancied parallels between his own circumstances and those related of Yorick. He finds a sorrowing woman sitting, like Maria of Moulines, beneath a poplar tree.
And shall this tender flower, said I, pressing it between my hands, shall it be smitten to its very root, and smitten, Yorick! by thee, who hast promised to shelter it in thy breast?
Provided, quoth Yorick, there is no bawdry in it. They are just now, replied Phutatorius, printing off the ninth chapter which is the last chapter but one in the book. Pray what is the title of that chapter? said Yorick; making a respectful bow to Phutatorius as he spoke. I think, answered Phutatorius, 'tis that de re concubinaria. For Heaven's sake keep out of that chapter, quoth Yorick.
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