The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 07 (of 12)

chapter in Sterne where the Count mistakes the feigned name of Yorick

for a proof of his being the identical imaginary character in Hamlet (_Et vous êtes Yorick!_)—thus confounding words with things twice over—but let a difference of opinion be once hitched in, and it was all over with him. His only object from that time was to shut out common sense, and to be proof against convicti...