 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pagine
...Angelo Grant me patience, just Heaven ! — Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of 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... | |
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1912 - 702 pagine
...CRITICISM. Grant me patience, just Heaven ! Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting. — LAURENCE STERNE. Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It... | |
 | Ralcy Husted Bell - 1916 - 268 pagine
...believe it was Laurence Sterne who said: "Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting." The most casual dunce assumes that he is capable of criticizing almost anything in art, while as a... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1919 - 286 pagine
...critics. He would have agreed with Sterne : " Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting." " When any of them," he says, " has found out who was the mother of Anchises, or has lighted upon some... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pagine
...Writing and Books. (See also SACKVILLE) 2 Of all the cants which are canted in this canting wopkl — STERNE — Life and Opinions of Tristram. Shandy. (Orig. ed.) Vol. III. Ch. XII. "The cant of criticism."... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1924 - 306 pagine
...impressed with the truth of Sterne's remark, that "of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting," one welcomes Pepys's frankness with delight, even when he commits the last of sins, that of differing... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 570 pagine
...of Tristram Shandy where he exclaims, " Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting, " l can only be matter of conjecture ; he does not explicitly mention it, as he does, for instance,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 286 pagine
...Angela Grant me patience, jusl: heaven ! — Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worsT: — the cant of criticism is the mosl: tormenting ! I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 292 pagine
...Angela Grant me patience, just heaven ! — Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of 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... | |
 | Robert Eugen Zachrisson - 1928 - 188 pagine
...att tillämpa Sternes ord om kritiken : »Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting», eller Thorilds ännu mera drastiska definition. Men frågan är om ej ett övermått av kritik kan... | |
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Grant me patience, just Heaven! Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! 
