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Comments On Sterne.
eat : not to thirst , than to drink to satisfy thirst ; not to be cold , than ii put on clothes to drive ate ) ay cold ? You had more need rejoice that I am freed from diseases , agues , & c . The Thhicians wept still when a child was hdrn , feasted and made mirth when any man was buried : and so should we rather be glad for such as die well , that they are so happily freed from the miseries of this life * . " Again— " Consider , brother Toby , —when we are , death is not ,
ancl when death is , we are not "—So Burton translates a passage in Seneca : When zoe are , death is not ; but zvhen death is , then we are naif . The original words are , quam nossumus , mors non adest ; cum vera mors adesi , turn nos non suhius . " For this reason , continued my father , ' tis worthy to recollect " how little alteration in" great men the approaches of death have " made . Vespasian died in a jest Calba with a
sen" fence—Septimius Severus in a dispatch ; Tiberius in dissimula" tion , and Cssar Augustus in a compliment . " This conclusion of so remarkable a Chapter is copied , omitting some quotations , almost verbatim , from Lord Vertilam ' s Essay on Death . We must have recourse to Burton again , for part of the Tnstra-Pasdia . " O blessed health I cried my father , making an
exclamau tion , as he turned over to the leaves to the next Chapter , —thou " art above all gold and treasure ; ' tis thou who enlarges ! the soul , " —and openest all its powers to receive instruction , and to relish * ' virtue . —He that has thee , has little more to wish for;—and " he that is so wretched as to want thee , —wants every thing with " thee . J "
O blessed health ' ¦ says Burton , thou art above all gold and treasure ; rjEccIesiast . ' ] the poor man ' s riches , the rich man ' s bliss , without thzi there can be no happiness § . 0 bcata . sanhan , te presenie , am & mm Verjltiret graliis , absque te nemo bedim .
But I should , in order , have noticed first an exclamation at the end of Chapter ix . in the spirit of which nobody could expect Sterne to be original . " Now I love you for this—and ' tis this de" licious mixture within you , which makes you dear Creatures 51 what you are—and he who hates you for it—all I can say of the " matter isThat he has a pumpkin for his heador a ippin for his
, , p " heart , —and whenever he is dissected ' twill be found so . "—Burton ' s Quotation is : Qui vim non sensit amoris , aut lapis est , aut bellua : which he translates thus : He is not a man , a block , a very stone , aid Numen aut Nebuchadnezzar , he hath a gourd for his bead , a pippin fir bis heart , that bath not felt the power of it .
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Comments On Sterne.
eat : not to thirst , than to drink to satisfy thirst ; not to be cold , than ii put on clothes to drive ate ) ay cold ? You had more need rejoice that I am freed from diseases , agues , & c . The Thhicians wept still when a child was hdrn , feasted and made mirth when any man was buried : and so should we rather be glad for such as die well , that they are so happily freed from the miseries of this life * . " Again— " Consider , brother Toby , —when we are , death is not ,
ancl when death is , we are not "—So Burton translates a passage in Seneca : When zoe are , death is not ; but zvhen death is , then we are naif . The original words are , quam nossumus , mors non adest ; cum vera mors adesi , turn nos non suhius . " For this reason , continued my father , ' tis worthy to recollect " how little alteration in" great men the approaches of death have " made . Vespasian died in a jest Calba with a
sen" fence—Septimius Severus in a dispatch ; Tiberius in dissimula" tion , and Cssar Augustus in a compliment . " This conclusion of so remarkable a Chapter is copied , omitting some quotations , almost verbatim , from Lord Vertilam ' s Essay on Death . We must have recourse to Burton again , for part of the Tnstra-Pasdia . " O blessed health I cried my father , making an
exclamau tion , as he turned over to the leaves to the next Chapter , —thou " art above all gold and treasure ; ' tis thou who enlarges ! the soul , " —and openest all its powers to receive instruction , and to relish * ' virtue . —He that has thee , has little more to wish for;—and " he that is so wretched as to want thee , —wants every thing with " thee . J "
O blessed health ' ¦ says Burton , thou art above all gold and treasure ; rjEccIesiast . ' ] the poor man ' s riches , the rich man ' s bliss , without thzi there can be no happiness § . 0 bcata . sanhan , te presenie , am & mm Verjltiret graliis , absque te nemo bedim .
But I should , in order , have noticed first an exclamation at the end of Chapter ix . in the spirit of which nobody could expect Sterne to be original . " Now I love you for this—and ' tis this de" licious mixture within you , which makes you dear Creatures 51 what you are—and he who hates you for it—all I can say of the " matter isThat he has a pumpkin for his heador a ippin for his
, , p " heart , —and whenever he is dissected ' twill be found so . "—Burton ' s Quotation is : Qui vim non sensit amoris , aut lapis est , aut bellua : which he translates thus : He is not a man , a block , a very stone , aid Numen aut Nebuchadnezzar , he hath a gourd for his bead , a pippin fir bis heart , that bath not felt the power of it .