A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... gave the book a most extra- ordinary degree of eclat . But the applause of the public was not unmingled with censure . Sterne was not on good terms with his professional brethren : he had too much wit , and too little forbearance in the ...
... gave the book a most extra- ordinary degree of eclat . But the applause of the public was not unmingled with censure . Sterne was not on good terms with his professional brethren : he had too much wit , and too little forbearance in the ...
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... the mother . ” — " How much , " added he , " I know not - he always gave more than he could afford . ” Sterne was frequently at a loss upon his travels for ready money . Remittances were become interrupted by war , 18 PREFATORY MEMOIR.
... the mother . ” — " How much , " added he , " I know not - he always gave more than he could afford . ” Sterne was frequently at a loss upon his travels for ready money . Remittances were become interrupted by war , 18 PREFATORY MEMOIR.
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... gave it up at length as un- attainable . " I the more wondered at this , " said La Fleur , " as he must have understood Latin . " The assertion , sanctioned by Johnson , that Sterne was licentious and dissolute in conversation , stands ...
... gave it up at length as un- attainable . " I the more wondered at this , " said La Fleur , " as he must have understood Latin . " The assertion , sanctioned by Johnson , that Sterne was licentious and dissolute in conversation , stands ...
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... gave a slight glance with his eye downwards upon the sleeve of his tunic : -I felt the full force of the appeal ; -I acknowledge it , said I : -a coarse habit , and that but once in three years , with meagre diet , —are no great matters ...
... gave a slight glance with his eye downwards upon the sleeve of his tunic : -I felt the full force of the appeal ; -I acknowledge it , said I : -a coarse habit , and that but once in three years , with meagre diet , —are no great matters ...
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... gave me her hand , showed , I thought , her good educa- tion and her good sense ; and , as I led her on , I felt a pleasurable ductility about her , which spread a calm- ness over all my spirits . -Good God ! how a man might lead such a ...
... gave me her hand , showed , I thought , her good educa- tion and her good sense ; and , as I led her on , I felt a pleasurable ductility about her , which spread a calm- ness over all my spirits . -Good God ! how a man might lead such a ...
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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.