Sterne a Study to Which is Added the Journal to Eliza
Sterne a Study to Which is Added the Journal to Eliza
Walter Sydney Sichel
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I have a hundred hens and chickens about my yard — and not a parishioner catches a hare, or a rabbit, or a trout, but he brings it as an offering to me. If solitude would cure a love-sick heart [Eliza, not Kitty], I would give you an invitation — but absence and time lessens no attachment that virtue inspires. I am in high spirits — Care never enters this gate — I take the air every day in my post-chaise with my two long-tailed Horses . .. . And as to myself, I think I am better on the whole. "... Nor, when he writes " happy as a Prince, " should we forget the happier phrase by which he adorned a proverb, when, speaking of a postillion, he said that he sat "as horizontal as a king. " And now hear him in Tristram Shandy, where he protests his wish for economy : " I am persuaded there is not any Prince, Prelate, Pope, or Potentate, great or small upon earth, more desirous in his heart to keep straight with the n 1 62 STERNE world than I am — or who takes more likely means for it.
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