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Comments On Sterne.
" Grades , commit many indecent actions , " & c * All this is corrobfli rated by quotations from Ortelius , Catullus , Virgil , Lucan , and Tacitus . I take them in the order assigned them by Burton . For he say $ with great probability of himself , that he commonly wrote as fast as possible , and poured out his quotations just as they happened to occur to his memory . But to proceed with Mr . Shandy ' s consolation .
" 'Tis an inevitable chance—the first statute in Magna Charta—; " it is an everlasting Act of Parliament , my dear brother—all " must die- ) -. " " ' Tis an inevitable chance , the first statute in Magna Cbar . ta , an ever * * ' lasting Act of Parliament , all must diet ¦ " When Tully was bereft of his dear daughter Tullia , at first lie
« c laid it to his heart—lie listened to the voice of Nature , and modu-* ' fitted his own unto it , & c . —But as soon as he began to look into * the stores of Philosophy , and consider how many excellent things *' mig ht be said upon the occasion— -nobody upon earth can con-* ' ceive , Says . the great orator , how joyful , how happy it made * me § . " " Tully was much grieved for his daughter Tulliola ' s death at first j
* ' until such time that be bad confirmed bis mind with some philosophical " precepts , then he began to triumph over fortune and grief , and for her * ' reception into heaven to be much more joyed than before he was trou- > 8 < bled for her loss \\ . " Sterne is uncharitable hereto poor Cicero . — " Kingdoms and provinces , and toivns and cities , have they no ? * their periods ? Where is Troyand Myceneand Thebesand
, , , * ' Delos , and Persepolis , and Agrigentum . What is become , * 'brother Toby , of Nineveh , and Babylon , of Cyzicum and My-* ' tilene ; the fairest towns that ever the sUh rose UpoU , are now nd * more < if . " " Kingdoms , Provinces , Towns ; and Cities" says Burton , have tbeit * ' periods , and are consumed . In those flourishing times ofTivy , Mycene
'" was the fairest city in Greece , - . but it , alas I and that Assyrian *' Ninive are quite ' overthrown . The like fate hath that Egyptian and " Boeotian Thebes , Delos , the common Council-house of Greece , and " Babylon , the greatest City that ever the Sun shone on , hath now nor thing but walls and rubbish left . " And zvbere . is Troy itself stow , Persepolis , Carthage , Gizicum , Sparta , Aigos , and all those Grecian Cities ? Syracuse and Agrigentum , the fairest towns in Sicily , which bad sometimes seven hundred thousand inhabitants , are iww decayed * Let as
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Comments On Sterne.
" Grades , commit many indecent actions , " & c * All this is corrobfli rated by quotations from Ortelius , Catullus , Virgil , Lucan , and Tacitus . I take them in the order assigned them by Burton . For he say $ with great probability of himself , that he commonly wrote as fast as possible , and poured out his quotations just as they happened to occur to his memory . But to proceed with Mr . Shandy ' s consolation .
" 'Tis an inevitable chance—the first statute in Magna Charta—; " it is an everlasting Act of Parliament , my dear brother—all " must die- ) -. " " ' Tis an inevitable chance , the first statute in Magna Cbar . ta , an ever * * ' lasting Act of Parliament , all must diet ¦ " When Tully was bereft of his dear daughter Tullia , at first lie
« c laid it to his heart—lie listened to the voice of Nature , and modu-* ' fitted his own unto it , & c . —But as soon as he began to look into * the stores of Philosophy , and consider how many excellent things *' mig ht be said upon the occasion— -nobody upon earth can con-* ' ceive , Says . the great orator , how joyful , how happy it made * me § . " " Tully was much grieved for his daughter Tulliola ' s death at first j
* ' until such time that be bad confirmed bis mind with some philosophical " precepts , then he began to triumph over fortune and grief , and for her * ' reception into heaven to be much more joyed than before he was trou- > 8 < bled for her loss \\ . " Sterne is uncharitable hereto poor Cicero . — " Kingdoms and provinces , and toivns and cities , have they no ? * their periods ? Where is Troyand Myceneand Thebesand
, , , * ' Delos , and Persepolis , and Agrigentum . What is become , * 'brother Toby , of Nineveh , and Babylon , of Cyzicum and My-* ' tilene ; the fairest towns that ever the sUh rose UpoU , are now nd * more < if . " " Kingdoms , Provinces , Towns ; and Cities" says Burton , have tbeit * ' periods , and are consumed . In those flourishing times ofTivy , Mycene
'" was the fairest city in Greece , - . but it , alas I and that Assyrian *' Ninive are quite ' overthrown . The like fate hath that Egyptian and " Boeotian Thebes , Delos , the common Council-house of Greece , and " Babylon , the greatest City that ever the Sun shone on , hath now nor thing but walls and rubbish left . " And zvbere . is Troy itself stow , Persepolis , Carthage , Gizicum , Sparta , Aigos , and all those Grecian Cities ? Syracuse and Agrigentum , the fairest towns in Sicily , which bad sometimes seven hundred thousand inhabitants , are iww decayed * Let as