The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman · Laurence Sterne

Volume IV, Chapter 37

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WHICH shews, let your reverences and worships say what you will of it (for as for thinking----all who do think--think pretty much alike both upon it and other matters)----Love is certainly, at least alphabetically speaking, one of the most

A gitating

B ewitching

C onfounded

D evilish affairs of life----the most

E xtravagant

F utilitous

G alligaskinish

H andy-dandyish

I racundulous (there is no K to it) and

L yrical of all human passions: at the

same time, the most

M isgiving

N innyhammering

O bstipating

P ragmatical

S tridulous

R idiculous--though by the bye the R should have gone first--But in short ’tis of such a nature, as my father once told my uncle Toby upon the close of a long dissertation upon the subject----“You can scarce,” said he, “combine two ideas together upon it, brother Toby, without an hypallage”----What’s that? cried my uncle Toby._

The cart before the horse, replied my father----

----And what is he to do there? cried my uncle Toby._

Nothing, quoth my father, but to get in----or let it alone.

Now widow Wadman, as I told you before, would do neither the one or the other.

She stood however ready harnessed and caparisoned at all points, to watch accidents.

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