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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... 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,
... scarce have called me a machine.— I'm confident, said I to myself, I should have overset her creed. The accession of that idea carried nature, at that time, as high as she could go;—I was at peace with the world before, and this finish ...
Laurence Sterne. T H E M O N K. CA LA I S. I had scarce uttered the words, when a poor monk of the order of St. Francis came into the room to beg something for his convent. No man cares to have his virtues the sport of contingencies—or ...
... scarce a country or corner in Europe whose beams are not crossed and interchanged with others.—Knowledge in most of its branches, and in most affairs, is like music in an Italian street, whereof those may partake who pay nothing.—But ...
... scarce have achieved for them, had she projected it for a month. —And your reflection upon it shows how much, Monsieur, she has embarrassed you by the adventure— When the situation is what we would wish, nothing is so ill-timed as to ...