A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 Seiten |
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... look more closely into the manner of composition which Sterne 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 ...
... look more closely into the manner of composition which Sterne 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 ...
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... look into them . So , giving up the argument , —I went straight to my lodg- ings , put up half a dozen shirts and a black pair of silk breeches ; " the coat I have on , ” said I , looking at the sleeve , " will do , " - took a place in ...
... look into them . So , giving up the argument , —I went straight to my lodg- ings , put up half a dozen shirts and a black pair of silk breeches ; " the coat I have on , ” said I , looking at the sleeve , " will do , " - took a place in ...
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... looks round him , as if he sought for an object to share it with . - In doing this , I felt every vessel in my frame dilate , —the arteries beat all cheerily to- gether , and every power which sustained life performed it with so little ...
... looks round him , as if he sought for an object to share it with . - In doing this , I felt every vessel in my frame dilate , —the arteries beat all cheerily to- gether , and every power which sustained life performed it with so little ...
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... look : I have his figure this moment before my eyes , and think there was that in it which deserved better . The monk , as I judged from the break in his tonsure , a few scattered white hairs upon his temples being all that remained of ...
... look : I have his figure this moment before my eyes , and think there was that in it which deserved better . The monk , as I judged from the break in his tonsure , a few scattered white hairs upon his temples being all that remained of ...
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... look and figure , —I was bewitched not to have been struck with it . -A better reason was , I had predetermined not to give him a single sous . J THE MONK . CALAIS . -'Tis very true , said THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY . 35.
... look and figure , —I was bewitched not to have been struck with it . -A better reason was , I had predetermined not to give him a single sous . J THE MONK . CALAIS . -'Tis very true , said THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY . 35.
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Seite 352 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Seite 113 - The bird in his cage pursued me into my room; I sat down close to my table, and leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. 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...
Seite 111 - ... the cage to pieces. — I took both hands to it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and...
Seite 391 - Ballads), and an Essay on the Life and Writings of CERVANTES by JOHN G. LOCKHART. Preceded by a Short Notice of the Life and Works of PKTER ANTHONY MOTTEUX by HENRI VAN LAUN.
Seite 324 - 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 6 - ... till about the latter end of that year, and cannot omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment.
Seite 264 - ... 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 114 - ... his chair and bed: a little calendar of small sticks were laid at the head, notched all over with the dismal days and nights he had passed there : — he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap.
Seite 114 - 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 253 - 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.