A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... brother , was just arrived at the hotel . Though I had infinite good - will for the lady , I cannot say that I rejoiced in my heart at the event , -and could not help telling her so ; for it is fatal to a proposal , madam , said I ...
... brother , was just arrived at the hotel . Though I had infinite good - will for the lady , I cannot say that I rejoiced in my heart at the event , -and could not help telling her so ; for it is fatal to a proposal , madam , said I ...
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... brother's apartments to her own , hearing so much jollity below stairs , rung up her fille de chambre to ask about it ; and hearing it was the English gentleman's servant who had set the whole house merry with his pipe , she ordered him ...
... brother's apartments to her own , hearing so much jollity below stairs , rung up her fille de chambre to ask about it ; and hearing it was the English gentleman's servant who had set the whole house merry with his pipe , she ordered him ...
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... brother say so much of you both as they just passed by ? The two ladies seemed much affected ; and impul- sively at the same time they both put their hands into their pocket , and each took out a twelve - sous piece . The contest ...
... brother say so much of you both as they just passed by ? The two ladies seemed much affected ; and impul- sively at the same time they both put their hands into their pocket , and each took out a twelve - sous piece . The contest ...
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... brothers , which was to make up the body of the discourse . Those in learning he chose to introduce by way of digres- sions . He was then a young gentleman much in the world , and wrote to the taste of those who were like himself ...
... brothers , which was to make up the body of the discourse . Those in learning he chose to introduce by way of digres- sions . He was then a young gentleman much in the world , and wrote to the taste of those who were like himself ...
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... brother - adventurers , as their circumstances then stood , were strangely at a loss . For , on the one side the three ladies they addressed themselves to , whom we have named already , were ever at the very top of the fashion , and ...
... brother - adventurers , as their circumstances then stood , were strangely at a loss . For , on the one side the three ladies they addressed themselves to , whom we have named already , were ever at the very top of the fashion , and ...
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Æolists ancient answer begged better betwixt bidet bookseller brain brothers CALAIS called chaise Church coat Count Dessein discourse Don Quixote door eyes father fille de chambre Fleur France French gave Gil Blas give half hand hath head heart Heaven honour instantly Irenæus Jack Jaques Sterne La Fleur lady LAURENCE STERNE Lazarillo de Tormes learning look Lord Louis d'ors Madame mankind MATEO ALEMAN matter mind modern Mons Monsieur NAMPONT nature never observed occasion Paris passage passed person Peter poor portmanteau postilion present reader reason remise satire seemed Shandy Smelfungus spirit spleen Sterne story street tell thee things thou thought tion told took Traveller treatise Tristram Tristram Shandy true critic turn twas walked wherein whereof whole word Wotton writers Yorick
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Seite 342 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Seite 106 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to Lilerty, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change.
Seite 251 - What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of...
Seite 381 - THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. Translated from the Spanish of MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA by MOTTEUX.
Seite 318 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Seite 58 - I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to I would court their shade, and greet them kindly for their protection I would cut my name upon them, and swear they were the loveliest trees throughout the desert: if their leaves wither'd, I would teach myself to mourn, and when they rejoiced, I would...
Seite 258 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment, found these words : Item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, &c., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Seite 108 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door — then cast it down — shook hjs head — and went on with his work of affliction.
Seite 249 - For about this time it happened a sect arose, whose tenets obtained and spread very far, especially in the grand monde, and among everybody of good fashion. They worshipped a sort of idol, who, as their doctrine delivered, did daily create men by a kind of manufactory operation.
Seite 161 - HEAVEN - eternal fountain of our feelings! - 'tis here I trace thee - and this is thy divinity which stirs within me - not, that in some sad and sickening moments, 'my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction' - mere pomp of words! - but that I feel some generous joys and generous cares beyond myself- all comes from thee, great - great SENSORIUM of the world! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls upon the ground, in the remotest desert of thy creation.