The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy; Gentleman Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... Multitudinis imperitae non formido judicia, meis tamen, rogo, parcant opusculis --in quibus fuit propositi semper, a jocis ad seria, in seriis vicissim ad jocos transire. Joan. Saresberiensis, -- Episcopus Lugdun. SLAWKENBERGII FABELLA Vespera quadam frigidula, posteriori in parte mensis Augusti, peregrinus, mulo fusco colore incidens, mantica a tergo, paucis indusiis, binis calceis, braccisque sericis coccineis repleta Argentoratum ingressus est Militi eura percontanti, quum portus intrare dixit, se apud Nasorum pro. montorium fuisse, Francofurtum proficisci, et Argentoratum, transitu ad sines Sarmatiae mensis intervallo, reversurum. Miles peregrini in faciem suspexit: -- Dl boni, nova forma nasi At multum mini profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu finistrft, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit. Dolet mihi, ait miles tympanistam nanum et valgum alloquens virum adeo urbanum vaginam perdidisse: itinerari SLAWKENBERGIUS'S TALE It was one cool refreshing evening, at the close of a very sultry day, in the latter end of the month of August, when a stranger, mounted upon a dark mule, with a small cloak-bag behind him, containing a few shirts, a pair of shoes, and a crimson-satin pair of breeches, entered the town of Strasburg. He told the sentinel, who questioned him as he entered the gates, that he had been at the Promontory of Noses --was going on to Frankfort--and should be back again at Strasburg that day month in his way to the borders of Crim Tartary. The sentinel looked up into the stranger's face: --he never saw such a nose in his life I --I have made a very good venture of it, quoth the...