A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... thought herself not rich enough , or me too poor , to be joined together . She went to her sister's in S- ; and I wrote to her often . I believe then she was partly determined to have me , but would not say so . At her return she fell ...
... thought herself not rich enough , or me too poor , to be joined together . She went to her sister's in S- ; and I wrote to her often . I believe then she was partly determined to have me , but would not say so . At her return she fell ...
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... thought might divert his melancholy . He used to smile at my well - meant zeal , and I could see was happy to be relieved . At others , he seemed to have received a new soul - he launched into the levity natural à mon pays , " said La ...
... thought might divert his melancholy . He used to smile at my well - meant zeal , and I could see was happy to be relieved . At others , he seemed to have received a new soul - he launched into the levity natural à mon pays , " said La ...
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... thought proper to adopt , we find a sure guide in the ingenious Dr. Ferriar of Manchester , who , with most singular patience , has traced our author through the hidden sources whence he borrowed most of his learning , and many of his ...
... thought proper to adopt , we find a sure guide in the ingenious Dr. Ferriar of Manchester , who , with most singular patience , has traced our author through the hidden sources whence he borrowed most of his learning , and many of his ...
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... thought he looked like a Jew , -then a Turk , disliked his wig , -cursed him by my gods , - wished him at the Devil ! - -And is all this to be lighted up in the heart for a beggarly account of three or four Louis d'ors , which is the ...
... thought he looked like a Jew , -then a Turk , disliked his wig , -cursed him by my gods , - wished him at the Devil ! - -And is all this to be lighted up in the heart for a beggarly account of three or four Louis d'ors , which is the ...
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... thought no more of her , but went on and wrote my preface . The impression returned upon my encounter with her in the street ; a guarded frankness with which she gave me her hand , showed , I thought , her good educa- tion and her good ...
... thought no more of her , but went on and wrote my preface . The impression returned upon my encounter with her in the street ; a guarded frankness with which she gave me her hand , showed , I thought , her good educa- tion and her good ...
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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.