A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... close this article than with the sonnet in which his in- genious inquisitor makes the amende honourable to the shade of Yorick . Sterne , for whose sake I plod through miry ways , Of antique wit and quibbling mazes drear , Let not thy ...
... close this article than with the sonnet in which his in- genious inquisitor makes the amende honourable to the shade of Yorick . Sterne , for whose sake I plod through miry ways , Of antique wit and quibbling mazes drear , Let not thy ...
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... close up to him , he intro- duced himself with the little story of the wants of his convent , and the poverty of his order ; and did it with so simple a grace , —and such an air of deprecation was there in the whole cast of his look and ...
... close up to him , he intro- duced himself with the little story of the wants of his convent , and the poverty of his order ; and did it with so simple a grace , —and such an air of deprecation was there in the whole cast of his look and ...
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... close all , where there is more wit and variety of character to feed the mind with : -Where , then , my dear countrymen , are you going ? -We are only looking at this chaise , said they . -Your most obedient servant , said I , skipping ...
... close all , where there is more wit and variety of character to feed the mind with : -Where , then , my dear countrymen , are you going ? -We are only looking at this chaise , said they . -Your most obedient servant , said I , skipping ...
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... close conference with the lady just arrived at the inn , I told him the truth ; but I did not tell him the whole truth ; for I was full as much restrained by the appearance and figure of the lady he was talking to . Suspicion crossed my ...
... close conference with the lady just arrived at the inn , I told him the truth ; but I did not tell him the whole truth ; for I was full as much restrained by the appearance and figure of the lady he was talking to . Suspicion crossed my ...
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... close beside my elbow till midnight , I should have held true to my system , and considered her only under the general idea . She had scarce got twenty paces distant from me , ere something within me called out for a more par- ticular ...
... close beside my elbow till midnight , I should have held true to my system , and considered her only under the general idea . She had scarce got twenty paces distant from me , ere something within me called out for a more par- ticular ...
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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.