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Comments On Sterne.
Pre-sentiment would think it a prop to his theory . " It is as striking as Swift ' s Digression on Madness , in the Tale of a Tub . " Was I in a condition to stipulate with Death ^ 1 should « certainly declare against submitting to it before my friends ; and " therefore I never seriously think upon the mode and manner of - this great catastrophe , which generally takes up and torments my " thoughts as much as tlie catastrophe itselfbut I constantly draw
, " the curtain across it with this wish , that the Disposer of all things " may so order it , that it happen not to me in my own house—but " rather in some decent inn in an inn , the few cold ofBces I " wanted , would be purchased with a few guineas , and paid me with '• an undisturbed but punctual attention . " It is known that Sterne died in hired lodingsand I have been toldthat his attendants
robg , , bed him even of his gold sleeve-buttons , while he was expiring . I have seen , not very long ago , a charge of plagiarism brought against Sterne , respecting his Sermons . From what Author the passages were said to be borrowed , I do not remember ; but it has long been my opinion , that the manner , the style , and the selection of subjects for those Sermons , were
derived from the excellent Contemplations of Bishop Hall . There is a delicacy of thought , and tenderness of expression in the good Bishop ' s compositions , from the transfusion of which Sterne looked for immortality . Let us compare that singular Sermon , entitled THE LEVITE ASS * HIS CoNCur . iNE , with part of the Bishop ' s Contemplation of the LEVITE ' CONCUBINE . I shall follow Sterne ' s order . "— Then shame and grief go with her , and wherever she seeks " a shelter , may the hand of justice shut the door against her * . "
What husband would not bave said—She is gone , let shame and grief go with her ; I shall find one no less pleasing , and more faithful f . " Our annotators tell us , that in Jewish ceconomicks , these ( cou-( i cubines ) differed little from the wife , except in some outward " ceremonies and stipulations , but agreed with her in all the tru » /' essences of marriage J . " The Law of Godsays the Bishopallowed the Levite a wife ; human
, , connivance a concubine ; neither did the Jewish- concubine differ from a wife , but in some outward compliments ; both might challenge all the true essence of marriage . ¦ ' . ' I Shall omit the greater part of the Levite ' s soliloquy , in Sterne , and only take , the last sentences . " Mercy well becomes the heart of all thy creaturesbut most of
, " thy servant , a Levi . te , who offers up so many daily sacrifices to " thee , for the ' transgressions of thy people . " ¦ — " But to little purpose , " he would add , " have I served at thy fi altar , where my business was to sue for mercy , had I not learn'i ; " to practise it .
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Comments On Sterne.
Pre-sentiment would think it a prop to his theory . " It is as striking as Swift ' s Digression on Madness , in the Tale of a Tub . " Was I in a condition to stipulate with Death ^ 1 should « certainly declare against submitting to it before my friends ; and " therefore I never seriously think upon the mode and manner of - this great catastrophe , which generally takes up and torments my " thoughts as much as tlie catastrophe itselfbut I constantly draw
, " the curtain across it with this wish , that the Disposer of all things " may so order it , that it happen not to me in my own house—but " rather in some decent inn in an inn , the few cold ofBces I " wanted , would be purchased with a few guineas , and paid me with '• an undisturbed but punctual attention . " It is known that Sterne died in hired lodingsand I have been toldthat his attendants
robg , , bed him even of his gold sleeve-buttons , while he was expiring . I have seen , not very long ago , a charge of plagiarism brought against Sterne , respecting his Sermons . From what Author the passages were said to be borrowed , I do not remember ; but it has long been my opinion , that the manner , the style , and the selection of subjects for those Sermons , were
derived from the excellent Contemplations of Bishop Hall . There is a delicacy of thought , and tenderness of expression in the good Bishop ' s compositions , from the transfusion of which Sterne looked for immortality . Let us compare that singular Sermon , entitled THE LEVITE ASS * HIS CoNCur . iNE , with part of the Bishop ' s Contemplation of the LEVITE ' CONCUBINE . I shall follow Sterne ' s order . "— Then shame and grief go with her , and wherever she seeks " a shelter , may the hand of justice shut the door against her * . "
What husband would not bave said—She is gone , let shame and grief go with her ; I shall find one no less pleasing , and more faithful f . " Our annotators tell us , that in Jewish ceconomicks , these ( cou-( i cubines ) differed little from the wife , except in some outward " ceremonies and stipulations , but agreed with her in all the tru » /' essences of marriage J . " The Law of Godsays the Bishopallowed the Levite a wife ; human
, , connivance a concubine ; neither did the Jewish- concubine differ from a wife , but in some outward compliments ; both might challenge all the true essence of marriage . ¦ ' . ' I Shall omit the greater part of the Levite ' s soliloquy , in Sterne , and only take , the last sentences . " Mercy well becomes the heart of all thy creaturesbut most of
, " thy servant , a Levi . te , who offers up so many daily sacrifices to " thee , for the ' transgressions of thy people . " ¦ — " But to little purpose , " he would add , " have I served at thy fi altar , where my business was to sue for mercy , had I not learn'i ; " to practise it .