 Go,' says he one day at dinner to an overgrown one which had buzzed about his nose and tormented him cruelly all dinner time, and which, after infinite attempts he had caught at last, as it flew by him ; — 'I'll not hurt thee,' says my Uncle Toby, rising...  The North British review - Page 5511860Full view - About this book
 | Wilhelm Dibelius - English fiction - 1910 - 816 pages
...ihn arg belästigt; aber die Ausführung ist einfach — er lässt sie fortfliegen mit den Worten: 'go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? This world surcty is wid<i cnough to hold both thee and me' (TSh 123); weder durch grosse Ausführlichkeit, noch... | |
 | Sir Harold Herbert Williams - English fiction - 1911 - 364 pages
...Toby's nose, do not belong to the literature or feeling of their time. " I'll not hurt thee, says my Uncle Toby, rising from his chair and going across...thee gone, why should I hurt thee ? — This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me." It was Sterne, too, who struck the note of joy in... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - History - 1917 - 328 pages
...Toby picks up the fly which has tormented him cruelly all dinnertime : " I'll not hurt thee, says my Uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room with the fly in his hand—I'll not hurt a hair of thy head:—go—says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand... | |
 | Wilson Follett - English fiction - 1918 - 348 pages
...after infinite attempts, he had caught at last, as it flew by him; — I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, — I '11 not hurt a hair of thy head : — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand... | |
 | Wilson Follett - English fiction - 1918 - 346 pages
...which after infinite attempts, he had caught at last, as it flew by him;—I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand,—I '11 not hurt a hair of thy head:— Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand... | |
 | John Todhunter - Essays (Irish) - 1920 - 180 pages
...infinite attempts, he had caught at last — as it flew by him ; — " I'll not hurt thee," says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across...of thy head : — Go," says he, lifting up the sash to let it escape ; — " go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee ? — This world is... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Social sciences - 1924 - 880 pages
...which after infinite attempts he had caught at last as it flew by him. 'I'll not hurt thee,' says my Uncle Toby, rising from his chair and going across...'I'll not hurt a hair of thy head':' 'Go,' says he, ... 'go, poor devil . . . why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1924 - 382 pages
...after infinite attempts, he had caught at last, as it flew by him ; — I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, '•'' 1'fl'n'o't hurt a hair of thy head : — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - English fiction - 1927 - 362 pages
...going across the room with tka fly in hia hand, — I'll not hurt a hair of thy head : — Go, — sayi he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he...poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee f — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. Before Sterne, there was in our literature... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - English fiction - 1927 - 362 pages
...I'll not hurt thee, says my Uncla Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room with th« fly in his hand, — I'll not hurt a hair of thy head : — Go, — saya he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke to let it escape ; — go, poor... | |
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