 | Algernon Taylor - Convents - 1862 - 370 pages
...ignorance looking downwards upon the earth — it looked forwards ; 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 Indostan,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, David Herbert - Authors, English - 1872 - 512 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 Brahmin, and, had I met it upon the plains of Indostau,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 446 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 Brahmin, and, had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1873 - 440 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 Brahmin, and, had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 pages
...looking downwards upon the earth — It looked forwards; 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 liramin ; and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 450 pages
...ignorance looking downwards upon the earth; — it looked forwards, 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 Indostan,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1882 - 500 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 Brahmin, and, had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 424 pages
...ignorance looking downwards upon the earth—it looked forwards; 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 Bramin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 432 pages
...looking downwards upon the earth — it looked forwards ; 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 Bramin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1888 - 316 pages
...the earth, — it looked forwards; but looked as if it looked at something beyond this worldy ! .".., 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,... | |
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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 ; but look'd, as if it look'd at something beyond this world. 
