 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 284 pages
...seems more troublesome. A notorious instance from Sterne illuminates the problem: —Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys,...sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw—and 'tis thou who lilts him up to HEAVEN—eternal fountain of our feelings!—'tis here 1... | |
 | Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman - Business & Economics - 1993 - 388 pages
...Ultimately, he offers this concluding paean to the nearly religious ardor of "sensibility": Dear Sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! . . . external fountain of my feelings! — 'tis here I trace thee — and this is the divinity which... | |
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HEAVEN eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me not that, in some sad and sickening moments, my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction mere pomp of words! 
