A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... entered the room three paces , he stood still ; and laying his left hand upon his breast ( a slender white staff with which he journeyed being in his right ) —when I had got close up to him , he intro- duced himself with the little ...
... entered the room three paces , he stood still ; and laying his left hand upon his breast ( a slender white staff with which he journeyed being in his right ) —when I had got close up to him , he intro- duced himself with the little ...
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... entered the room , after every dis- count I could make for my soul , the genuine look and air of the fellow determined the matter at once in his favour ; so I hired him first , —and then began to in- E quire what he could do . - But I ...
... entered the room , after every dis- count I could make for my soul , the genuine look and air of the fellow determined the matter at once in his favour ; so I hired him first , —and then began to in- E quire what he could do . - But I ...
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... entering upon his em- ployment , I delivered to him the key of my port- manteau , with an inventory of my half a dozen shirts and a silk pair of breeches : and bid him fasten all upon the chaise , get the horses put to , -and desire the ...
... entering upon his em- ployment , I delivered to him the key of my port- manteau , with an inventory of my half a dozen shirts and a silk pair of breeches : and bid him fasten all upon the chaise , get the horses put to , -and desire the ...
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... entered into it , which was almost four - and - twenty hours . The poor soul burned with impatience ; and the Count de L's servant coming with the letter , being the first practi- cable occasion which offered , La Fleur had laid hold of ...
... entered into it , which was almost four - and - twenty hours . The poor soul burned with impatience ; and the Count de L's servant coming with the letter , being the first practi- cable occasion which offered , La Fleur had laid hold of ...
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... . I was going one evening to Martini's concert at Milan , and was just entering the door of the hall , when the Marquisina de F was coming out , in a sort of hurry ; she was almost upon me before I 96 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.
... . I was going one evening to Martini's concert at Milan , and was just entering the door of the hall , when the Marquisina de F was coming out , in a sort of hurry ; she was almost upon me before I 96 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.
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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.