 Sermons,' with his own comick figure, from a painting by Reynolds, at the head of them? They are in the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter,...  The Anonymous - Page 1631810Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter,...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S fetters: June 22nd, 1760. " It having been observed that there was little hospitality... | |
 | 1892 - 744 pages
...parish, and prebendary of the diocese of York. No wonder that Gray describes him in the pulpit as " often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of his audience." He is a unique figure in the history of letters ; and yet in this artist of the odd... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - Private libraries - 1888 - 622 pages
...Poet, praises the style as coming from "a sensible heart," but " you see," he adds, " the preacher often tottering on the verge of laughter and "ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." Sterne's dissipation prevented his obtaining promotion. Mr. Traill defines his literary... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter,...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S Letters : June 22d, 1760. " It having been observed that there was little hospitality... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...a second and a much livelier collection of Sermons, in which, as Gray said, you often see Sterne " tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." These sermons may be taken as forming a sort of Sunday edition of Tristram Shandy, for family... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...a second and a much livelier collection of Sermons, in which, as Gray said, you often see Sterne " tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the <v audience." These sermons may be taken as forming a sort of .'•; Sunday edition of Tristram Shandy,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...a second and a much livelier collection of Sermons, in which, as Gray said, you often see Sterne " tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." These sermons may be taken as forming a sort of Sunday edition of Tristram Shandy, for family... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 474 pages
...style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter,...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S Letters : June 22nrf, 1760. " It having been observed that there was little hospitality... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...a second and a much livelier collection of Sermons, in which, as Gray said, you often see Sterne " tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." These sermons may be taken as forming a sort of Sunday edition of Tristram Shandy, for family... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...a second and a much livelier collection of Sermons, in which, as Gray said, you often see Sterne " tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." These sermons may be taken as forming a sort of Sunday edition of Tristram Shandy, for family... | |
| |
