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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! "
Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride ... - Page 151
by Edward Barry - 1806 - 190 pages
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A History of English Literature

John Buchan - 1923 - 746 pages
...sentimentalism. It gives, further, a more chastened and refined example of his style. Dear sensibility ! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows ! — tliou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who liftest him up to...
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Humor in die algemeen en sy uiting in die Afrikaanse letterkunde

François Ernst Johannes Malherbe - 1924 - 272 pages
....... what is good in them." 1 ) Let veral hier op sy gevoeligheid: „dear sentimentality," roep hy, „source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys or costly in our sorrows! Great sensorium of the world!" Sentimentaliteit kenmerk dan ook in meerdere of mindere mate alle humoriste...
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A Sentimental Journey Through France & Italy: With Selections from the ...

Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 324 pages
...poplar; and I had got almost to Lyons before I was able to cast a shade across her. Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys,...chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw and 'tis thou who lift'st him up to HEAVEN Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and...
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Works, Volume 6

Laurence Sterne - 1927 - 304 pages
...shade across her Dear SENSIBILITY ! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or cosily in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who lifts him up to HEAVEN — eternal fountain of our feelings ! — 'tis here I trace thee...
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Studies in Philology, Volume 24

1927 - 646 pages
...in 1768 Sterne wrote as follows in A Sentimental Journey : " Dear Sensibility ! source unexhausted of all that's precious in our joys or costly in our sorrows ! . . . Eternal fountain of our feelings ! " 3 Indorsed by Sterne, the word at once became so popular...
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Studies in Philology, Volume 24

1927 - 634 pages
...when in 1768 Sterne wrote as follows in A Sentimental Journey: "Dear Sensibility! source unexhausted of all that's precious in our joys or costly in our sorrows ! . . . Eternal fountain of our feelings ! " 8 Indorsed by Sterne, the word at once became so popular...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 28-29

1860 - 1430 pages
...Sehnsucht und das Sentiment, von dem L. Sterne sagt in seinen empfindsamen Reisen: Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys...martyr down upon his bed of straw and it is thou who lifts him up to heaveu. Ein anderes charakteristisches Moment der Lyrik neben ilem Gefühlsmässigen...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volume 28

1860 - 492 pages
...Sehnsucht und das Sentiment, von dem L. Sterne sagt in seinen empfindsamen Reisen: Dear sensibility! eource inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys or...martyr down upon his bed of straw and it is thou who lifts him up to heaven. Ein anderes charakteristisches Moment der Lyrik neben dem Gefühlsmässigen...
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Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels

Patricia Meyer Spacks - 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...
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The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in ...

Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman - 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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