A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... falling through a mill - race whilst the mill was going , and of being taken up unhurt : the story is incredible , but known for truth in all that part of Ireland , where hundreds of the common people flocked to see me . From hence we ...
... falling through a mill - race whilst the mill was going , and of being taken up unhurt : the story is incredible , but known for truth in all that part of Ireland , where hundreds of the common people flocked to see me . From hence we ...
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... fall out so cruelly as we do by the way ? When man is at peace with man , how much lighter than a feather is the heaviest of metals in his hand ! he pulls out his purse , and holding it airily and uncom- pressed , looks round him , as ...
... fall out so cruelly as we do by the way ? When man is at peace with man , how much lighter than a feather is the heaviest of metals in his hand ! he pulls out his purse , and holding it airily and uncom- pressed , looks round him , as ...
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... fall upon a monk's shoulders , best knows ; but it would have suited a Brahmin , and , had I met it upon the plains of Indostan , I had reverenced it . The rest of his outline may be given in a few strokes ; one might put it into the ...
... fall upon a monk's shoulders , best knows ; but it would have suited a Brahmin , and , had I met it upon the plains of Indostan , I had reverenced it . The rest of his outline may be given in a few strokes ; one might put it into the ...
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... fall within his arm , he pressed both his hands with resig- nation upon his breast , and retired . THE MONK . CALAIS . My heart smote me the moment he shut the door . -Psha ! said I , with an air of carelessness , three several times ...
... fall within his arm , he pressed both his hands with resig- nation upon his breast , and retired . THE MONK . CALAIS . My heart smote me the moment he shut the door . -Psha ! said I , with an air of carelessness , three several times ...
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... fall to pieces before you had got half way to Paris , -figure to yourself how much I should suffer , in giving an ... falls THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY . 45.
... fall to pieces before you had got half way to Paris , -figure to yourself how much I should suffer , in giving an ... falls THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY . 45.
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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.