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Comments On Sterne.
considerable addition to his fame , that he anticipated later Physiolog ists in some surprizing and important facts respecting the re * union of living parts . —Sterne has played unaccountably with the public curiosity , on the subject of a very silly book , which he attempts to pass off as curious , merely because it is obscure . This is-the more surprizing , because his fiction of Slawkenbeigius is admirable . Mr . Shandhas the good fortunewe are toldto get Bruscambille ' s
y , , Prologue on looses almost for nothing—that is for three half-crowns . "' There are not three Bruscambilles in Christendom—said the stall" man , except what are chained up in the libraries of the curious . "" This is well calculated to excite the appetites of epicures in literature , which perhaps was all the author intended ; and which is ill supported by the work in question . That no future collector may
sig h for Bruscambille , I will give as much of his Prologue on Noses as deserves the patience of a reader . I shall only premise , that the book consists of a set of prose discourses , printed at Cologne , in 1741 , which seem to have ushered in comedy * , farce , or puppetshow , according to the exigencies of the night : they resemble the Prologues of Terence , only in the freedom with which Monsieur Bruscambille treats his audience . " Je n ' entrepaend point de faire ici uiie ample description des
" differens nez , avec les pr-oprietez singuheres qui leur sont an" nexees ; j ' en dirois peut etre trop des grands nez au prejudice des " nez mediocres , des petits nez , des nez cornus , des nez plats , & " autres de toute sorte d ' espece , je me contente de dire que les " grands nez ont beaucoup d ' avantage stir les petits pour les odeurs " dont ils sont l'organe nature ] , d ' autant que par leur capacite plus etendue ils peuvent recevoir lus de odoriferentes &
" p vapeurs que " celles qui montens de bas en haut leur peu t'ent moins echappe ' r " qu ' aux petits nez : en un mot , Messieurs , si c ' est quelque chose "de beau , de bon , de louable , d ' avantageux en tout genre d ' avoir " du nez , ii le doit etre encore plus d ' avoir du grand nez , " & c . Jani satis , f The mock quotations , explanatory of the Promontory of Noses , in
Slawkenbergius ' s tale , are merely designed to cover the use made of Rabelais ' s proverb ; " il fut a la foire des nez . " Sterne has diverted himself sometimes with references to some parts of this author , that appeared ajnigmatical enough . For instance ; "Who " was Tickletoby ' s Mare ? "J ; I believe many of Rabelais ' s readers would be puzzled to answer . Sterne alludes to the story of poor Tappecoue § , who fell a sacrifice to the resentment of the devils of Poictiers .
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Comments On Sterne.
considerable addition to his fame , that he anticipated later Physiolog ists in some surprizing and important facts respecting the re * union of living parts . —Sterne has played unaccountably with the public curiosity , on the subject of a very silly book , which he attempts to pass off as curious , merely because it is obscure . This is-the more surprizing , because his fiction of Slawkenbeigius is admirable . Mr . Shandhas the good fortunewe are toldto get Bruscambille ' s
y , , Prologue on looses almost for nothing—that is for three half-crowns . "' There are not three Bruscambilles in Christendom—said the stall" man , except what are chained up in the libraries of the curious . "" This is well calculated to excite the appetites of epicures in literature , which perhaps was all the author intended ; and which is ill supported by the work in question . That no future collector may
sig h for Bruscambille , I will give as much of his Prologue on Noses as deserves the patience of a reader . I shall only premise , that the book consists of a set of prose discourses , printed at Cologne , in 1741 , which seem to have ushered in comedy * , farce , or puppetshow , according to the exigencies of the night : they resemble the Prologues of Terence , only in the freedom with which Monsieur Bruscambille treats his audience . " Je n ' entrepaend point de faire ici uiie ample description des
" differens nez , avec les pr-oprietez singuheres qui leur sont an" nexees ; j ' en dirois peut etre trop des grands nez au prejudice des " nez mediocres , des petits nez , des nez cornus , des nez plats , & " autres de toute sorte d ' espece , je me contente de dire que les " grands nez ont beaucoup d ' avantage stir les petits pour les odeurs " dont ils sont l'organe nature ] , d ' autant que par leur capacite plus etendue ils peuvent recevoir lus de odoriferentes &
" p vapeurs que " celles qui montens de bas en haut leur peu t'ent moins echappe ' r " qu ' aux petits nez : en un mot , Messieurs , si c ' est quelque chose "de beau , de bon , de louable , d ' avantageux en tout genre d ' avoir " du nez , ii le doit etre encore plus d ' avoir du grand nez , " & c . Jani satis , f The mock quotations , explanatory of the Promontory of Noses , in
Slawkenbergius ' s tale , are merely designed to cover the use made of Rabelais ' s proverb ; " il fut a la foire des nez . " Sterne has diverted himself sometimes with references to some parts of this author , that appeared ajnigmatical enough . For instance ; "Who " was Tickletoby ' s Mare ? "J ; I believe many of Rabelais ' s readers would be puzzled to answer . Sterne alludes to the story of poor Tappecoue § , who fell a sacrifice to the resentment of the devils of Poictiers .