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Article COMMENTS ON STERNE. ← Page 6 of 7 →
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Comments On Sterne.
fellow Sterne again . " Returning out of Asia , when I sailed for " JEgina . towards Megara , I began to view the Country found " about ; / Egina was behind me , Megara vyas before , Pyrasus on " the right hmd , Corinth on the left . What flourishing towns now " prostrate on the earth ! Alas ! alas ! said I to myself , that a " man should disturb his soul for the loss of a Child , when so much " as this lies awfully buried in his presence . Bemembersaid I
, " to myself again—remember that thou art a Man . " This is , with some sli ght variations , Burton ' s translation of Servitts ' s letter . Sterne alters just enough , to shew that he had not attended to the original . Burton ' s version follows . " Returning out of Asia , when I sailed from JE g ina to-ulards Megara , I began to view the Country round about . JEgina was behind me ,
Megara before . Pymus on the ri ght bandj Corinth on the left ; what flourishing towns heretofore , nozv prostrate and overwhelmed before mine eyes ? Alas , why are zoe men so much disquieted with the departure of a friend , whose life is much shorter , zvbenso many goodly Cities lie buried , before us ? Remember , O Servius , thou art a Man ; and with thatt was milch Confirm d , and corrected myself . " " My son is dead , " says Mr . Shandy , " so fiitich the better * , 'tis
" a shame , in such a tempest , -to have but one Anchor . " I—but he was a most dear and . loving friend , quoth Burtom , my sole friend—Thou maist be ashamed , I say with Seneca , to confess it , in such a tempest as this , to have but one anchor . " But , " continues Mr . Shandy , " he is gone for ever from Us I " be it so ^ He is got from under the hands of his barber before he " was bald . He is but risen fronr-a feast before he Was Surfeited —>
" from a banquet before he had : " got drunken . The Thracians wept " when a child was born , and feasted and made merry when a man " went out of the world , aud with reason . Is it not better not to "hunger at all , than to eat ? not to thirst , than to take physic to " cure it ? Is it not better to be freed from cares and agues , love " and melanchoty , and the other hot and cold fits of lifef , than , ;
" like a galled traveller , who comes weary to his inn , to be bound " to begin his journey afresh ?" I shall follow Burton ' s collections as they Stand in his own order . ! " Thou dost him great injury to desire his longer life . Wilt thou havt him crazed and sickly still , like a tired traveller that comes weary to bis Inn , begin his journey afresh ? - - — he is now gone to eternity - - - . as i f he had risen , saith Plutarch , from the midst of a feast , before hi ivas drunk - - - - Is it not much better not to hunger at all , than t &
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Comments On Sterne.
fellow Sterne again . " Returning out of Asia , when I sailed for " JEgina . towards Megara , I began to view the Country found " about ; / Egina was behind me , Megara vyas before , Pyrasus on " the right hmd , Corinth on the left . What flourishing towns now " prostrate on the earth ! Alas ! alas ! said I to myself , that a " man should disturb his soul for the loss of a Child , when so much " as this lies awfully buried in his presence . Bemembersaid I
, " to myself again—remember that thou art a Man . " This is , with some sli ght variations , Burton ' s translation of Servitts ' s letter . Sterne alters just enough , to shew that he had not attended to the original . Burton ' s version follows . " Returning out of Asia , when I sailed from JE g ina to-ulards Megara , I began to view the Country round about . JEgina was behind me ,
Megara before . Pymus on the ri ght bandj Corinth on the left ; what flourishing towns heretofore , nozv prostrate and overwhelmed before mine eyes ? Alas , why are zoe men so much disquieted with the departure of a friend , whose life is much shorter , zvbenso many goodly Cities lie buried , before us ? Remember , O Servius , thou art a Man ; and with thatt was milch Confirm d , and corrected myself . " " My son is dead , " says Mr . Shandy , " so fiitich the better * , 'tis
" a shame , in such a tempest , -to have but one Anchor . " I—but he was a most dear and . loving friend , quoth Burtom , my sole friend—Thou maist be ashamed , I say with Seneca , to confess it , in such a tempest as this , to have but one anchor . " But , " continues Mr . Shandy , " he is gone for ever from Us I " be it so ^ He is got from under the hands of his barber before he " was bald . He is but risen fronr-a feast before he Was Surfeited —>
" from a banquet before he had : " got drunken . The Thracians wept " when a child was born , and feasted and made merry when a man " went out of the world , aud with reason . Is it not better not to "hunger at all , than to eat ? not to thirst , than to take physic to " cure it ? Is it not better to be freed from cares and agues , love " and melanchoty , and the other hot and cold fits of lifef , than , ;
" like a galled traveller , who comes weary to his inn , to be bound " to begin his journey afresh ?" I shall follow Burton ' s collections as they Stand in his own order . ! " Thou dost him great injury to desire his longer life . Wilt thou havt him crazed and sickly still , like a tired traveller that comes weary to bis Inn , begin his journey afresh ? - - — he is now gone to eternity - - - . as i f he had risen , saith Plutarch , from the midst of a feast , before hi ivas drunk - - - - Is it not much better not to hunger at all , than t &