 ... wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted mild, pale penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the earth it look'd forwards...  A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Page 11by Laurence Sterne - 1770Full view - About this book
 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1926 - 324 pages
...ignorance looking downwards upon the earth it look'd forwards; but look'd, as if it look'd at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows; but it would have suited a Bramin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the earth) it looked forwards, but looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it 1 From A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Omissions are not indicated. fall upon a monk's... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the earth; it looked forwards, but looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it 1 From A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Omissions are not indicated. fall upon a monk's... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1927 - 304 pages
...ignorance looking downwards upon the earth — it look'd forwards ; but look'd, as if itlook'd at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows; but it would have suited a Bramin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - English language - 1928 - 262 pages
...looking downwards upon the earth — it look'd forwards ; but look'd, as if it look'd at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows ; but it would have suited a Bramin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Cynthia Ozick - Fiction - 1996 - 358 pages
...ignorance, looking downward upon the earth; it looked forward, but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows; but it would have suited a Brahmin, and had I met it upon the plains of Hindostan,... | |
 | Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton - History - 1996 - 336 pages
...ignorance, looking downward upon the earth; it looked forward, but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows; but it would have suited a Brahmin, and had I met it upon the plains of Hindostan,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - Fiction - 2006 - 284 pages
...ignorance looking downwards upon the earth — it look'd forwards; but look'd, as if it look'd at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows: but it would have suited a Bramin,6 and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
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