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Comments On Sterne.
I shall just observe by the way , that a pretty passage in the Story of tbe King of Bohemia and bis seven castles ;— " MODESTY scarce " touches with a finger whatLiBERALiTY offers her with both hands" open "—alludes to a picture of Guido ' s , the design of which it describes tolerably well . Retournons a nos moutons , as Rabelais would say , ; in matters of paintingit is dangerous * for a man to trust his own eyestill he has
, , taken his degree of Connoisseur . It confirms me strongly in the belief that the character of Mr . Shandy is a personification of the authorship of Burton , when I find such a passage as the following in Sterne . " There is a Philippic "in verse on somebody ' s eye or other , that for two or three nights " together had put him by his rest ; which , in his first transport of
" resentment against it , he begins thus : " A / Devil 'tis—and mischief such doth work " As never yet did Pagan , Jew , or Turk . " This choice couplet is quoted by Burton * from some bad Poet , now unknown , of whose name he only gives the initials . " Hilarion the hermit , in speaking of his abstinence , his watch" ings , flagellations , and other instrumental parts of his religion , —
" would say—tho' with more facetiousness than became an hermit" That they were the means he used , to make his ass ( meaning " his body ) leave off kicking f . " "By this means- Hilarion made his Ass , as he call'd his own body leave kicking ( so Hierome . relates of him in his life ) when the Devil tempted him to any foul offencet . " " I wishYoricksaid my father , yoii had read Plato ; for there
, , " you would have learned that there are two LOVES of these fe Loves , according to Ficinus ' s comment upon Velasius , the one " is rational—the other is natural—the first ancient—without mother " —where Venus has nothing to do : the second , begotten of Jupi" ter and Dione—1 |" § One Venus is ancient , without a Mother , and descended from
Heaven , whom we call cOelestial . Tbe younger begotten of Jupiter and Dione , whom commonly we call Venus . Ficinus ,- in his comment upon this place , cap . 8 . following Plato , called these two loves , twoDevils , or good and bad Angels according to us , which are still hovering about our souls % That part of the letter to Uncle Toby , which consists of obsolete medical practices , is taken from one of the Chapters on the Cure of Love-Melancholy ** . Many curious quotations might be added
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Comments On Sterne.
I shall just observe by the way , that a pretty passage in the Story of tbe King of Bohemia and bis seven castles ;— " MODESTY scarce " touches with a finger whatLiBERALiTY offers her with both hands" open "—alludes to a picture of Guido ' s , the design of which it describes tolerably well . Retournons a nos moutons , as Rabelais would say , ; in matters of paintingit is dangerous * for a man to trust his own eyestill he has
, , taken his degree of Connoisseur . It confirms me strongly in the belief that the character of Mr . Shandy is a personification of the authorship of Burton , when I find such a passage as the following in Sterne . " There is a Philippic "in verse on somebody ' s eye or other , that for two or three nights " together had put him by his rest ; which , in his first transport of
" resentment against it , he begins thus : " A / Devil 'tis—and mischief such doth work " As never yet did Pagan , Jew , or Turk . " This choice couplet is quoted by Burton * from some bad Poet , now unknown , of whose name he only gives the initials . " Hilarion the hermit , in speaking of his abstinence , his watch" ings , flagellations , and other instrumental parts of his religion , —
" would say—tho' with more facetiousness than became an hermit" That they were the means he used , to make his ass ( meaning " his body ) leave off kicking f . " "By this means- Hilarion made his Ass , as he call'd his own body leave kicking ( so Hierome . relates of him in his life ) when the Devil tempted him to any foul offencet . " " I wishYoricksaid my father , yoii had read Plato ; for there
, , " you would have learned that there are two LOVES of these fe Loves , according to Ficinus ' s comment upon Velasius , the one " is rational—the other is natural—the first ancient—without mother " —where Venus has nothing to do : the second , begotten of Jupi" ter and Dione—1 |" § One Venus is ancient , without a Mother , and descended from
Heaven , whom we call cOelestial . Tbe younger begotten of Jupiter and Dione , whom commonly we call Venus . Ficinus ,- in his comment upon this place , cap . 8 . following Plato , called these two loves , twoDevils , or good and bad Angels according to us , which are still hovering about our souls % That part of the letter to Uncle Toby , which consists of obsolete medical practices , is taken from one of the Chapters on the Cure of Love-Melancholy ** . Many curious quotations might be added