 | Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 350 էջ
...in one of his pleasant moods, to the reader's understandZZiT ing. " As no one," he says, " who knows he is about in good company, would venture to talk...who understands the , just boundaries of decorum and good-breeding, would . presume to think all." Is there not philosophy as well as wit in Yorick's contention... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1906 - 350 էջ
...It shall be solved, — but not in the next chapter. CHAPTER XI. WRITING, when properly managed (sis you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different...who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good-breeding, would presume to think all : The truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1924 - 382 էջ
...— is the greatest problem of all : It shall be solved, — but not in the next chapter. CHAPTER XI WRITING, when properly managed (as you may be sure...who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good-breeding, would presume to think all : The truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding,... | |
 | François Ernst Johannes Malherbe - 1924 - 272 էջ
...take them out of this book, for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them . . . writing when properly managed (as you may be sure...mine is) is but a different name for conversation." Sterne het in 'n sekere mate gelyk, tog Ie daar 'n gevaar in die willekeurige romantiese spel met alles... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 390 էջ
...not think so. It is possible that Boswell derived this idea from Sterne; cf. Tristram Shandy, 2. 2: Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure...mine is) is but a different name for conversation. On the distinction to be made between ephemera] and serious compositions, cf. Letters of B., 1. 245:... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 էջ
...military profession is wholly sincere— it omits, however, most of the really relevant considerations. "Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure...mine is), is but a different name for conversation." This is one of many remarks which Sterne makes to the reader about his method of writing in the course... | |
 | John Kevin Newman - 2003 - 576 էջ
...Tolstoy's favorite writer, Sterne, had been well aware of it in the "classical" eighteenth century: Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure...he is about in good company, would venture to talk all;—so no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and goodbreeding, would presume... | |
 | Dieter Mehl, Mehl Dieter - 1986 - 260 էջ
...Pickwick Papers; of all of them, as of Chaucer's poems, we may say, as Laurence Sterne says of his novel: 'Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure...mine is) is but a different name for conversation' (Tristram Shandy, u, 11). When the partner in this kind of conversation turns out to be as lively and... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - 1991 - 572 էջ
...affair - is the greatest problem of all; - it shall be solved, - but not in the next chapter. CHAPTER XI Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure...mine is), is but a different name for conversation ... (L. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. 2, chs. 10, 11) Synonyms: egressio (Lanham, Lausberg); episode... | |
 | Tom Keymer, Thomas Keymer - 2004 - 300 էջ
...ponders the consequences for the reader of the fractures, ellipses and lacunae that pepper his reports: Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure...who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good-breeding, would presume to think all: The truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding,... | |
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WRITING, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is), is but a different name for conversation. As no one, who knows what he is about, in good company would venture to talk all; so no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum... 
