A Sentimental Journey through France and ItalyXist Publishing, 16.09.2015 - 167 Seiten The Birth of Travel Writing “Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!” - Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Parson Yorick is an English traveler who doesn’t know much about plots and how to write proper novels. He knows many things however about human character. So he decides to write his impressions and adventures during his travels in France and Italy. No plot, just his encounters with many different men and women. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes |
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... 'tis the monarch of a people so civilized and courteous, and so renowned for sentiment and fine feelings, that I have to reason with!— But I have scarce set a foot in your dominions.— CA LA I S. When I had fished my dinner,
... and such an air of deprecation was there in the whole cast of his look and figure,—I was bewitch'd not to have been struck with it. —A better reason was, I had predetermined not to give him a single sous. T H E M O N K. CA LA I.
... reason or reasons which may be derived from one of these general causes:— Infirmity of body, Imbecility of mind, or Inevitable necessity. The first two include all those who travel by land or by water, labouring with pride, curiosity ...
... reason—the heart knew it, and was satisfied; and who but an English philosopher would have sent notice of it to the brain to reverse the judgment? In saying this, she disengaged her hand with a look which I thought a sufficient ...
... reason directed me to the last resource in these dangers,—to hold it loosely, and in a manner as if I was every moment going to release it, of myself; so she let it continue, till Monsieur Dessein returned with the key; and in the mean ...