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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... writing in order to have nummum in loculo , he declares he wrote not to be fed , but to be famous . Tristram , however , procured the author both fame and profit . The brilliant genius which mingled with so much real or affected ...
... writing in order to have nummum in loculo , he declares he wrote not to be fed , but to be famous . Tristram , however , procured the author both fame and profit . The brilliant genius which mingled with so much real or affected ...
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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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Seite 352 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Seite 60 - 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 discoloured or distorted He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings.
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 74 - ... at them, and shook his head. He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again, as if to eat...
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 11 - ... the author has not always thought it necessary to write downward, in order to meet the comprehension of children. He has generally suffered the theme to soar, whenever such was its tendency, and when he himself was buoyant enough to follow without an effort. Children possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple, likewise. It is only the artificial and the complex that bewilder them.
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 111 - In my return back through the passage, I heard the same words repeated twice over ; and looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage. — " I can't get out, — I can't get out,
Seite 178 - The author was then young, his invention at the height, and his reading fresh in his head. By the assistance of some thinking, and much conversation, he had endeavoured to strip himself of as many real prejudices as he could ; I say real ones, because, under the notion of prejudices, he knew to what dangerous heights some men have proceeded.