A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyG. Routledge and Sons, 1886 - 253 Seiten |
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... laid her hand upon the cuff of my coat , in order to finish her reply ; so some way or other , God knows how , I regained my situa- tion . —She had nothing to add . I forthwith began to model a different con- versation for the lady ...
... laid her hand upon the cuff of my coat , in order to finish her reply ; so some way or other , God knows how , I regained my situa- tion . —She had nothing to add . I forthwith began to model a different con- versation for the lady ...
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... I had a strong desire to see where they had laid him — when , upon pulling out his little horn box , as I sat by his grave , and plucking up a nettle or two at the head of it , which had no business to THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY . 53.
... I had a strong desire to see where they had laid him — when , upon pulling out his little horn box , as I sat by his grave , and plucking up a nettle or two at the head of it , which had no business to THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY . 53.
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... laid it down as a second axiom , as indisputable as the first , " that she was a widow , and wore a character of distress , " I went no further : I got ground enough for the situation which pleased me ; and had she remained close beside ...
... laid it down as a second axiom , as indisputable as the first , " that she was a widow , and wore a character of distress , " I went no further : I got ground enough for the situation which pleased me ; and had she remained close beside ...
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... laid the gross to sleep . " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba , and cry , ' tis all barren , and so it is ; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers . " I declare , " said I , clapping ...
... laid the gross to sleep . " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba , and cry , ' tis all barren , and so it is ; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers . " I declare , " said I , clapping ...
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... laid them down - looked at them , and shook his head . He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again , as if to eat it ; held it some time in his hand ; then laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridle , looked wistfully at the ...
... laid them down - looked at them , and shook his head . He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again , as if to eat it ; held it some time in his hand ; then laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridle , looked wistfully at the ...
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Abdera asked Bastile begged better betwixt bidet blushed breast breeches C'est CALAIS chaise dear désobligeante door Elvington Eugenius eyes face fair fille felt fille de chambre Fleur France gave girl give grisette half hand head heart Heaven honour instantly La Fleur lady LAURENCE STERNE livre look Lord louis d'ors Madame de Rambouillet Maria Marquess master ment mind monk Monsieur Dessein Monsieur le Count Monsieur le Duc MONTREUIL Nampont Nature never night notary numbers old French officer Opéra Comique Paris passed passport pâtés pity pocket portmanteau postillion pulled quoth remise replied scarce sent SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Shakespere Shandy side Smelfungus soul sous spirit step Sterne stood story street supper sweet tell thee thing thou thought tion told took Traveller Tristram Shandy turn twas VERSAILLES walked whilst whole wished woman word Yorick
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Seite 32 - I considered his grey hairs : — his courteous figure seemed to re-enter, and gently ask me what injury he had done me? — and why I could use him thus ? — I would have given twenty livres for an advocate. — I have behaved very ill, said I, within myself; but I have only just set out upon my travels, and shall learn better manners as I get along.
Seite 66 - The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, — from Paris to Rome, — and so on ; — but he set out with the spleen and jaundice ; and every object he pass'd by was discolored or distorted. — He wrote an account of them ; but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings.
Seite 165 - Marquis entered the court with his whole family : he supported his lady— his eldest son supported his sister, and his youngest was at the other extreme of the line next his mother — he put his handkerchief to his face twice — ' — There was a dead silence. When the Marquis had approached within six paces of the tribunal, he gave the Marchioness to his youngest son, and advancing three steps before his family — he reclaimed his sword.
Seite 148 - I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me, I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Seite 238 - ... 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...
Seite 67 - Turin, in his return home; and a sad tale of sorrowful adventures he had to tell, "wherein he spoke of moving accidents by flood and field, and of the cannibals which each other eat: the Anthropophagi" he had been flay'd alive, and bedevil'd, and used worse than St. Bartholomew, at every stage he had come at I'll tell it, cried Smelfungus, to the world. You had better tell it, said I, to your physician.
Seite 243 - I fancied I could distinguish an elevation of spirit different from that which is the cause or the effect of simple jollity. In a word, I thought I beheld Religion mixing in the dance...
Seite 16 - My father was a little smart man, active to the last degree in all excrcises, most patient of fatigue and disappointments, of which it pleased God to give him full measure. He was, in his temper, somewhat rapid and hasty, but of a kindly, sweet disposition, void of all design ; and so innocent in his own intentions that he suspected no one; so that you might have cheated him ten times in a day, if nine had not been sufficient for your purpose.
Seite 164 - Here, said he, take it; and be trusty guardians of it till better times put me in condition to reclaim it. The president accepted the Marquis's sword ; he stayed a few minutes to see it deposited in the archives of his house, and departed. The Marquis and his whole family embarked the next day for Martinico, and in about nineteen or twenty years of successful application to business, with some unlooked-for bequests from distant branches of his house, returned home to reclaim his nobility, and to...
Seite 175 - Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! Long long since had ye number'd out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground; when my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has...