 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - English literature - 1884 - 312 pages
...CRAVITY — 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... | |
 | Irish literature - 1893 - 386 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 cloak for ignorance or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in his... | |
 | Tristram Shandy, Gent. - 1893 - 490 pages
...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 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 - 1900 - 378 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 cloak for ignorance, or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1900 - 268 pages
...and 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...folly : and then, whenever it fell in his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter. Sometimes, in his wild way of talking, he... | |
 | John Hall-Stevenson - British - 1902 - 154 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 cloke for ignorance or for folly ; and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 672 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 cloak for ignorance, or for folly: and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Irish literature - 1904 - 530 pages
...and 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 his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter. Sometimes, in his wild way of talking, he... | |
 | Walter Sydney Sichel - 1910 - 432 pages
...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 his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter. Sometimes in his wild way of thinking, he... | |
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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... 
