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 | Olive Logan - Actors - 1870 - 738 pages
...criticism is the most tormenting. I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of imagination into his author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." Badinage... | |
 | Olive Logan - Actors - 1870 - 696 pages
...criticism is the most tormenting. I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of imagination into his author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." Badinage... | |
 | Olive Logan - Actors - 1870 - 708 pages
...horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of imagination into his author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." Badinage aside, let me say a word I tried once beforo to say, concerning Western critics, and did not... | |
 | Olive Logan - Theater - 1871 - 658 pages
...criticism is the most tormenting. I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of imagination into his author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." Badinage... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, David Herbert - Authors, English - 1872 - 512 pages
...criticism is the most tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. Great Apollo ! if thou art in a giving humour, give me — I ask no more — but one stroke of native... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...— though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot, to kiss the hand of...heart will give up the reins of his imagination into hisauthor's hands be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. — Tristram Shandy. [HENRY... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1873 - 516 pages
...criticism is the most tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. Great Apollo ! if thou art in a giving humour, — give me, — I ask no more, but one stroke of native... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 pages
...world, though the cant of hypocrisy may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting. I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of...pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. Sterns. The Archery of William Tell. "PLACE there the boy," the tyrant said; "fix me the apple on his... | |
 | Charles James Dunphie - Women - 1876 - 390 pages
...352 THE POETRY OF SLEEP. 1 1 T WOULD go fifty miles .on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author hands — be pleased he knows not why and cares not wherefore." So spake Lawrence Sterne ; and... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 576 pages
...relative ?' That pleasure is the object of art we admit. ' I would go fifty miles on foot,' says Sterne, ' to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of imagination into his author's hands, be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore ;' and we... | |
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