Sterne, Laurence
(Clonmel, Irland 1713-1768 London) : Irisch-englischer Schriftsteller, anglikanischer Vikar
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Index of Names : Occident
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Literature : Occident : Great Britain
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Literature : Occident : Ireland
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Religion : Christianity
Chronology Entries (1)
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| 1 | 1962-1967 |
Sterne, Laurence. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman [ID D30999]. Chapter 3.XXV. "'Tis a point settled,—and I mention it for the comfort of Confucius, (Mr Shandy is supposed to mean..., Esq; member for...,—and not the Chinese Legislator.) who is apt to get entangled in telling a plain story—that provided he keeps along the line of his story,—he may go backwards and forwards as he will,—'tis still held to be no digression." Chapter 4.XI. "I'll go see the surprising movements of this great clock, said I, the very first thing I do: and then I will pay a visit to the great library of the Jesuits, and procure, if possible, a sight of the thirty volumes of the general history of China, wrote (not in the Tartarean, but) in the Chinese language, and in the Chinese character too. Now I almost know as little of the Chinese language, as I do of the mechanism of Lippius's clock-work; so, why these should have jostled themselves into the two first articles of my list—I leave to the curious as a problem of Nature. I own it looks like one of her ladyship's obliquities; and they who court her, are interested in finding out her humour as much as I." Chapter 4.XX. "And now for Lippius's clock! said I, with the air of a man, who had got thro' all his difficulties—nothing can prevent us seeing that, and the Chinese history, &c. except the time, said Francois—for 'tis almost eleven—then we must speed the faster, said I, striding it away to the cathedral. I cannot say, in my heart, that it gave me any concern in being told by one of the minor canons, as I was entering the west door,—That Lippius's great clock was all out of joints, and had not gone for some years—It will give me the more time, thought I, to peruse the Chinese history; and besides I shall be able to give the world a better account of the clock in its decay, than I could have done in its flourishing condition— —And so away I posted to the college of the Jesuits. Now it is with the project of getting a peep at the history of China in Chinese characters—as with many others I could mention, which strike the fancy only at a distance; for as I came nearer and nearer to the point—my blood cool'd—the freak gradually went off, till at length I would not have given a cherry-stone to have it gratified—The truth was, my time was short, and my heart was at the Tomb of the Lovers—I wish to God, said I, as I got the rapper in my hand, that the key of the library may be but lost; it fell out as well— For all the Jesuits had got the cholic—and to that degree, as never was known in the memory of the oldest practitioner." Chapter 4.XLIII. "And all the world knows, that Friar Bacon had wrote expressly about it, and had generously given the world a receipt to make it by, above a hundred and fifty years before even Schwartz was born—And that the Chinese, added my uncle Toby, embarrass us, and all accounts of it, still more, by boasting of the invention some hundreds of years even before him—" |
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Bibliography (3)
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| 1 | 1762-1767 |
Sterne, Laurence. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. 1-9. (London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley (vol. 1-4) ; Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt (vol. 5-9), 1762-1767). [Enthält Eintragungen über China]. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1079/1079-h/1079-h.htm. |
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| 2 | 1990 |
[Sterne, Laurence]. Duo qing ke you ji. Laolunsi Siten'en ; Shi Yongli yi. (Beijing : Ren min wen xue chu ban she, 1990). (Wai guo wen xue ming zhu cong shu). Übersetzung von Sterne, Laurence. A sentimental journey through France and Italy. (London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1768). 多情客游记 |
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| 3 | 2006 |
[Sterne, Laurence]. Xiang di zhuan. Site'en ; Pu Long yi. (Nanjing : Yilin chu ban she, 2006). Übersetzung von Sterne, Laurence. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. 1-9. (London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley (vol. 1-4) ; Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt (vol. 5-9), 1762-1767). 项狄传 |
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