A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyAlan Rodgers Books LLC, 2005 - 108 Seiten
CALAIS When I had fished my dinner, and drank the King of France's health, to satisfy my mind that I bore him no spleen, but, on the contrary, high honor for the humanity of his temper, -- I rose up an inch taller for the accommodation. -- No -- said I -- the Bourbon is by no means a cruel race: they may be misled, like other people; but there is a mildness in their blood. As I acknowledged this, I felt a suffusion of a finer kind upon my cheek -- more warm and friendly to man, than what Burgundy (at least of two livres a bottle, which was such as I had been drinking) could have produced. -- Just God! said I, kicking my portmanteau aside, what is there in this world's goods which should sharpen our spirits, and make so many kind-hearted brethren of us fall out so cruelly as we do by the way? |
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... thou art a seduced , and a seducing slut ; and albeit thou cheatest us seven times a day with thy pictures and images , yet with so many charms dost thou do it , and thou deckest out thy pictures in the shapes of so many angels of light ...
... thou have laugh'd and moralized upon my new profession ! — and thou shouldst have laugh'd and moralized on . - Trust me , my dear Eugenius , I should have said , " There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse ...
... thou art still friendly to the scantiness thou hast created : with all thy great works about thee , little hast thou left to give , either to the scythe or to the sickle ; - but to that little thou grantest safety and protection ; and ...