 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1813 - 408 pages
...— not to gravity as such ; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together ; — but...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, onlf as it appeared a cloke for ignorance, or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 528 pages
...— not to gravity as such ; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together ; — but...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloke for ignorance, or for folly ; and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...or weeks together ; — but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against j sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter. Sometimes, in his wild way of talking, he... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...the most entangled. For aught I know there might be some mixture of serious of mortal men for days or weeks together ; — but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...— for where gravity was wanted, he would be the oiost grave or serious of mortal men for days or weeks together ; — but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1830 - 432 pages
...— not to gravity as such; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for gnorance, or for folly: and then, whenever t fell in his... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 542 pages
...not to gravity as such ; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or se-- rious of mortal men for days and weeks together ; — but...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly: and then whenever it fell in his... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1832 - 416 pages
...for where gravity -was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and ji weeks together ; — but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloke for ignorance or for folly : and then whenever it fell in his... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1834 - 440 pages
...— not to gravity as such; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly: and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...; not to gravity as such, — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave and serious of mortal men for days and weeks together ; but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance or for folly ; and then, whenever it fell in... | |
| |
Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity;— not to gravity as such;— for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together;— but he was an enemy to the affectation... 
