Mild Dorothea,peaceful, wise, and great, Swift
called her; but the light fallsupon a ghost.
The Queen wished to hear him preach; Harleyand
St.
He went to Court, and am so proud I make all
thelords come up to me.
She had no journalscoming day by day to comfort
her.
Who was it, she asked, that boardednear him, that
he dined with now and then?
Smith, who treats her like a princess, which
SirJustinian thinks a bad precedent for wives. Indeed,he had only been a month or
two in England when some such silenceroused Stellas suspicions. Lord Chesterfield
adjures him to respect them both. Now she was mistress of herhusbands house at The
Hague with its splendid buffet of plate. She was his confidante in the many troubles
of his difficultcareer.
What with onething and another times have changed.
Under the influence of thisextraordinary style the book becomes
semi-transparent.
Dingley and her lap-dogs, with the perpetual fears
andfrustrations, she too died.
Jamess Park and heardthe politicians wrangle at
Westminster. One must crack a joke, even if the joke is notaltogether a decent
one.
Mild Dorothea,peaceful, wise, and great, Swift
called her; but the light fallsupon a ghost.
In this interest in silence rather than in speech
Sterneis the forerunner of the moderns. It is well thatthe boy should be indulged in
fine sentiments about women and poetsto begin with. It is well thatthe boy should be
indulged in fine sentiments about women and poetsto begin with. But, in the eyes of
Dorothy, Templehad qualities that none of her other suitors possessed.
I know no suchperson, Swift replied; I do not dine
with boarders. This change in the angle of vision was in itself a
daringinnovation.
One misses the variety, thevigour, the ribaldry of
Tristram Shandy.
Farewell again, dearest rogues: I amnever happy,
but when I write or think of MD.
But Sterne, however little he let it show on the
surface,laid the criticism to heart. But the woman he had chosen was no insipid
slave.
Had he not himself taught herto act what was right,
and not to mind what the world said? Hitherto, the traveller had observed certain
laws ofproportion and perspective.