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" Fleur's eloge, as my own, having been in love, with one princess or other, almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 532
1865
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A Sentimental Journey Through France & Italy: With Selections from the ...

Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 324 pages
...princess or other, almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another: whilst this interregnum lasts, I always perceive my heart locked up...
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 94

1923 - 1004 pages
...with one lady or another all my life ; and I hope I shall go on till I die, being firmly persuaded that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another. I confess I do hate all cold conceptions as I do the puny ideas which...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...an Englishman does not travel to see Englishmen, I retired to my room. 11115/4 Sentimental Journey t well be under And who never would be missed - who nev betwixt one passion and another. 1 1 1 16 A Sentimental Journey There are worse occupations in this...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pages
...Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire 4020 A Sentimental Journey If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another. 4021 A Sentimental Journey There are worse occupations in this world...
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Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought: Behmenism and Its Development in England

Brian J. Gibbons - 2003 - 268 pages
...shown by female novelists is morally elevating.245 Laurence Sterne declared himself 'firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one [amorous] passion and another'.246 There is an element of humour in this, but similar views...
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the ...

Laurence Sterne - 2006 - 284 pages
...princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another: whilst this interregnum lasts, I always perceive my heart locked up...
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 61

1863 - 806 pages
...princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval between one passion and another." A theory truly chivalric, and which the old Bayards of crusading times made to influence their conduct....
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