 | Joseph Wildman - 1799 - 308 pages
...on " foot, to kiss the hand of that mortal, .** whose generous heart will give up " the reins of his imagination into " his author's hands, be pleased he " knows not why, and cares not " wherefore!"—He begs they will believe him sincere, when he declares himself their, and his subscribers,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...fifty miles on foot , to kiss the hand of that man , whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination intO' his author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. STERNE. CHAP. IV. On Negroes. ' VV HEN Tom , an' please your honour, got to the shop , there was nobody... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1804 - 374 pages
...riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his magination into his author's hands,.... be pleased he knows not why, and cares not •wherefore.' Great Apollo ! if thou art in a giving humor,— • .give me. I ask no more, but one stroke of native... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reigns of his imagination into his author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. T. SHANDY. CROSSES IN LIFE. MANY, many are the ups and clowns of life, fortune must be uncommonly gracious... | |
 | Horse racing - 1812 - 422 pages
...kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into the author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." How excessively appropriate ! — but there is an existing circumstance equally so, and lucky in the... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1813 - 408 pages
...horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. Great Apollo ! if thou art in a giving humour,— give me, — I ask no more, but one stroke of native... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 528 pages
...horse worth riding on, to kUs the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his ""^•imagination into his author's hands, — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. Great Apollo ! if thou art in a giving humour, — give me, — I ask no more, but one stroke of native... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. XII. — Parallel between Pofie and Dryden. — JOHNSON. IN acquired knowledge, the superiority must... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of that many whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands — be pleased, he knows not -why, and cares not wherefore. CHAPTER XII. DAVID'S LAMENTATION OVER SA UL AND JONATHAN.* 1 IT came to pass on the third day, that,... | |
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1818 - 588 pages
...fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." G 8 CHAP. CHAPTER XL V>'tll ordei'cl home ! — mnn's best delight. THOMSON. WE have to entreat the... | |
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I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. 
