 | Laurence Sterne - Travel - 2005 - 325 pages
...the grand portico of the pantheon — he was just coming out of it. 'Tis nothing but a huge cockpit,1 said he. I wish you had said nothing worse of the Venus of Medicis, replied I, for in passing J F«fe S- — 's Travels. through Florence, I had heard he* had fallen foul upon the goddess, and... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - Fiction - 2006 - 284 pages
...feelings.12 I met Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon — he was just coming out of it — ' Tis nothing but a huge cock-pit*, said he — I wish you...said nothing worse of the Venus of Medicis, replied I13 — for in passing through Florence, I had heard he had fallen foul upon the goddess, and used... | |
 | William Blake Gerard - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 284 pages
...(observe he was a Dutchman)" d. "A little French debonnaire captain, who came dancing down the street" e. "I had heard he had fallen foul upon the goddess, and used her worse than a common strumpet" f. "... C'est un garcon de bonne fortune" g. " — and the whole city, like the heart of one man, opened... | |
 | William Gibson - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 236 pages
...Smollett's description of the Medici Veniu. According to the narrator of A Sentimental Journey, Smelfungus "had fallen foul upon the goddess, and used her worse...a common strumpet without the least provocation in nature."4 Smollett's aesthetic reaction to the statue, according to Sterne and those he was parroting,... | |
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He wrote an account of them ; but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings. I met Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon : he was just coming out of it. 'Tis nothing but a huge cockpit,* said he. 
