 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 pages
...on sensibility that effectively sums up both its meaning and its appeal: "Dear sensibility! sources inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! . . . — eternal fountain of our feelings! . . . This is the divinity which stirs within... | |
 | Agnes Maria Zwaneveld - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 256 pages
...Doctor, echter zyn hitje geheel te overstelpen en mede te sleepen. 156 Original text (Stout: 277-9): —Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costiy in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw— and 'tis thou who lifts... | |
 | Xenja von Ertzdorff, Rudolf Schulz - Geography in literature - 2000 - 586 pages
...herauslesen, die dieser angesichts einer für ihn deprimierenden Damenbekanntschaft ("Maria") macht: — Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who lifts him up to... | |
 | Peter Elmer, Ole Peter Grell - History - 2004 - 404 pages
...but pressing through this gate of sorrow to it, my sufferings had totally unfitted me: in every scene of festivity I saw Maria in the back-ground of the...all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw - and 'tis thou who lifts him up to HEAVEN... | |
 | Catherine E. Ingrassia, Jeffrey S. Ravel - History - 2005 - 364 pages
...affections, as in this journey in the vintage, through this part of France; but ... in every scene of festivity I saw Maria in the back-ground of the...Lyons before I was able to cast a shade across her — (ASJ 155.2-8) The haunting picture of Maria, in effect, acts as a counterweight to Yorick's tendency... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - Fiction - 2006 - 284 pages
...but pressing through this gate of sorrow to it, my sufferings had totally unfitted me: in every scene of festivity I saw Maria in the back-ground of the...all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!3 thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who lifts him up to... | |
 | David Pierce - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 190 pages
...includes a reference to touch and the effect of the weather on people with a disorder of the nerves: Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who lift'st him up to... | |
 | Elisabeth Le Guin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 375 pages
...other answers, tho' distant."31 And thus Laurence Sterne's 1768 apotheosis of the sensible condition: Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who lifts him up to... | |
 | Wiebke Schrader, Georges Goedert, Martina Scherbel - Philosophy - 2005 - 444 pages
...Tränenseligkeit die antizipierte Weinseligkeit in jeder Hinsicht aussticht, selbst noch in puncto Wirrnis: - Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw - and 'tis thou who lifts him up to HEAVEN... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 320 pages
...sensibility that epitomizes Sterne's way of proceeding. Here is a slightly truncated version of it: Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw—and 'tis thou who lifts him up to HEAVEN—eternal... | |
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Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw, and 'tis thou who lift'st him up to HEAVEN. Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee,... 
