A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... writer : - As Mr. Sterne , in the foregoing narrative , hath brought down the account of himself until within a few months of his death , it remains only to mention that he left York about the end of the year 1767 , and came to London ...
... writer : - As Mr. Sterne , in the foregoing narrative , hath brought down the account of himself until within a few months of his death , it remains only to mention that he left York about the end of the year 1767 , and came to London ...
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... writer of the preceding obtained from him several little circumstances relative to his master ; as well as the characters depicted by him , a few of which , as they would lose by abridgment , I shall give verbatim . " There were moments ...
... writer of the preceding obtained from him several little circumstances relative to his master ; as well as the characters depicted by him , a few of which , as they would lose by abridgment , I shall give verbatim . " There were moments ...
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... writers , and to pass their wit and learning for his own , was the more unworthy in Sterne , as he had enough of original talent , had he chosen to exert it , to have dispensed with all such acts of literary petty larceny . Tristram ...
... writers , and to pass their wit and learning for his own , was the more unworthy in Sterne , as he had enough of original talent , had he chosen to exert it , to have dispensed with all such acts of literary petty larceny . Tristram ...
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... writers . In the power of approach- ing and touching the finer feelings of the heart , he has never been excelled , if indeed he has ever been equalled ; and may be at once recorded as one of the most affected , and one of the most ...
... writers . In the power of approach- ing and touching the finer feelings of the heart , he has never been excelled , if indeed he has ever been equalled ; and may be at once recorded as one of the most affected , and one of the most ...
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... writer called his adver- sary , and it was a point of satire well directed ; for I have been told Sir W. Temple was sufficiently mor- tified at the term . All the men of wit and politeness were immediately up in arms , through ...
... writer called his adver- sary , and it was a point of satire well directed ; for I have been told Sir W. Temple was sufficiently mor- tified at the term . All the men of wit and politeness were immediately up in arms , through ...
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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.