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Comments On Sterne.
e ! le , et ce ne fut meme que par reflexion subite , qu'il en donna le reste a 1 ' ainne * . The curious hypothesis respecting Christian names , ~ cantains a just satire on what was once a popular superstition , and even cherished by the learned . Pasquierin his Rechercheshas a Chapter on the fortune of some
, , Christian names . In the present state of knowledge , it would be unpardonable to omit a remark , with which an author like Sterne would make himself very merry . It relates to the passage , in which Mr . Shandy treats the name of TRISTRAM with such indignity , and demands of his supposed Adversary , " Whether he had ever remem" bered—whether he had ever read—or whether he ever heard tell
, , " of a man , call'd Tristram , performing any thing great or worth " recording?—No , —he would say , —TRISTBAM !—The tiling is " impossible ! " A Student of the fashionable black-letter erudition would have triumphed in proclaiming the redoubted Sir Tristram , Knight of the Round-table , and one of the most famous knightserrant upon record . Sterne might have replied ;
Non scribit , cujus Carmina nemo legit t ; and indeed his pleasant hero has no resemblance to the preux Chevalier . I am sorry to deprive Sterne of the following pretty figure , but justice must be done to every one . " In short , my father ' - r advanced so very slowly with his " work , and I began to live and get forward at such a rate , that if
" an event had not happened - - & c . I verily believe I had put by " my father , and left him drawing a sun-dial , for no better purpose " than to be buried under ground J . " Donne concludes his poem entitled The Will , with this very thought : . And all your Graces no more use shall have Than a Sun-dial in a Grave .
There is a strange coincidence between Sterne and a mystic wrf ^ ter , in the insertion of a black page in each of their works . I cannot consider it as an imitation , for it must appear by this time , that Sterne possessed no great store of curious reading . Every one knows the black pages in Tristram Shandy ; that of prior date is to be found in Dr . Fludd ' s Utriusque cosmi Historia \\ ,
and is emblematic of the Chaos . Fludd was a man of extensive erudition , and considerable observation , but his fancy , naturally vigorous , was fermented and depraved , by astrological and Cabbalistic researches . It will afford a proof of his strange fancies , and at the same time do away all ' suspicion of Sterne in this instance , to quote the ludicrous coincidence mentioned by Morhoff , between himself and this Author . " Cogitaiidi modum in nobis et speculationes iflas rationum , mirifice quodam in loco , videlicet in libro de mystica cere *
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Comments On Sterne.
e ! le , et ce ne fut meme que par reflexion subite , qu'il en donna le reste a 1 ' ainne * . The curious hypothesis respecting Christian names , ~ cantains a just satire on what was once a popular superstition , and even cherished by the learned . Pasquierin his Rechercheshas a Chapter on the fortune of some
, , Christian names . In the present state of knowledge , it would be unpardonable to omit a remark , with which an author like Sterne would make himself very merry . It relates to the passage , in which Mr . Shandy treats the name of TRISTRAM with such indignity , and demands of his supposed Adversary , " Whether he had ever remem" bered—whether he had ever read—or whether he ever heard tell
, , " of a man , call'd Tristram , performing any thing great or worth " recording?—No , —he would say , —TRISTBAM !—The tiling is " impossible ! " A Student of the fashionable black-letter erudition would have triumphed in proclaiming the redoubted Sir Tristram , Knight of the Round-table , and one of the most famous knightserrant upon record . Sterne might have replied ;
Non scribit , cujus Carmina nemo legit t ; and indeed his pleasant hero has no resemblance to the preux Chevalier . I am sorry to deprive Sterne of the following pretty figure , but justice must be done to every one . " In short , my father ' - r advanced so very slowly with his " work , and I began to live and get forward at such a rate , that if
" an event had not happened - - & c . I verily believe I had put by " my father , and left him drawing a sun-dial , for no better purpose " than to be buried under ground J . " Donne concludes his poem entitled The Will , with this very thought : . And all your Graces no more use shall have Than a Sun-dial in a Grave .
There is a strange coincidence between Sterne and a mystic wrf ^ ter , in the insertion of a black page in each of their works . I cannot consider it as an imitation , for it must appear by this time , that Sterne possessed no great store of curious reading . Every one knows the black pages in Tristram Shandy ; that of prior date is to be found in Dr . Fludd ' s Utriusque cosmi Historia \\ ,
and is emblematic of the Chaos . Fludd was a man of extensive erudition , and considerable observation , but his fancy , naturally vigorous , was fermented and depraved , by astrological and Cabbalistic researches . It will afford a proof of his strange fancies , and at the same time do away all ' suspicion of Sterne in this instance , to quote the ludicrous coincidence mentioned by Morhoff , between himself and this Author . " Cogitaiidi modum in nobis et speculationes iflas rationum , mirifice quodam in loco , videlicet in libro de mystica cere *