...episodes and digressions, strung together without any attempt at regularity or order. The reader must 'give up the reins of his imagination into his author's...pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.' Through the whole novel, however, over its mists and absurdities, shines his little family band of...

...worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting ! man, whose generous heart will give up tin: reins of his imagination into his author's hands —...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. STERNE. CHAPTER IV. ON NEGROES. WHEN Tom, an" please your honour, got to the shop there was nobody...

...world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." Now let me transfer the reader's attention to critics of another sort, — good people, who really...

...all the cants which are canted in this canting world, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting. I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of...pleased, he knows not why and cares not wherefore. THE MONKEY THAT SHAVED HIMSELF AND HIS FRIESTDS — HoMPHREYS. A MAN who own'da barber's shop At York,...

...skill ! Glance again if you please, and with a friendly eye — for like Sterne, we " would almost go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man [not to say woman], whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's...

...criticism is the most tormenting ! 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 the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not...

...skill ! Glance again if you please, and with a friendly eye — for like Sterne, we " would almost go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man [not to say woman], whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's...

...mît Stern's burst of indignation about " the r; . of criticism," which he winds up by sav;;i '• I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of...author's hands — be pleased he knows not why and cares »ot wherefore:" which may have suggested these lines to Kirke White : »Oh! I would walk A wenrr journcv,...

...criticism is the most tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not ;\ horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, — be pleased he knows not why, and caree not...

...criticism is the most tormenting ! 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...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...