The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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Pàgina 122
... girl about twenty , who by her air and drefs feemed to be fille de chambre to fome devout woman of fa- fhion , came into the fhop and asked for Les Egarements du Cœur & de l'Esprit : the bookfeller gave her the book direct- ly ; the ...
... girl about twenty , who by her air and drefs feemed to be fille de chambre to fome devout woman of fa- fhion , came into the fhop and asked for Les Egarements du Cœur & de l'Esprit : the bookfeller gave her the book direct- ly ; the ...
Pàgina 123
... girl made me more a humble courtesy than a low one- ' twas one of thofe quiet , thankful fink- ings where the fpirit bows itself down the body does no more than tell it . I never gave a girl a crown in my life which gave me half the ...
... girl made me more a humble courtesy than a low one- ' twas one of thofe quiet , thankful fink- ings where the fpirit bows itself down the body does no more than tell it . I never gave a girl a crown in my life which gave me half the ...
Pàgina 124
... girl , earnestly , I am incapable - in faying which , as is ufual in little bargains of honour , fhe gave me her hand - En verité , Monfieur , je mettrai cet argent apart , faid the . When a virtuous convention is made betwixt man and ...
... girl , earnestly , I am incapable - in faying which , as is ufual in little bargains of honour , fhe gave me her hand - En verité , Monfieur , je mettrai cet argent apart , faid the . When a virtuous convention is made betwixt man and ...
Pàgina 125
... girl feem'd affected some way or other with what I faid - fhe gave a low figh - I found I was not impowered to inquire at all after it - fo faid nothing more till I got to the corner of the Rue de Nevers , where we were to part . -But ...
... girl feem'd affected some way or other with what I faid - fhe gave a low figh - I found I was not impowered to inquire at all after it - fo faid nothing more till I got to the corner of the Rue de Nevers , where we were to part . -But ...
Pàgina 126
... girl told me that Madame R **** , the believed , expected a stranger with a letter , and was impatient to see him -fo I defired the girl to present my compliments to Madame R **** , and fay I would certainly wait upon her in the morning ...
... girl told me that Madame R **** , the believed , expected a stranger with a letter , and was impatient to see him -fo I defired the girl to present my compliments to Madame R **** , and fay I would certainly wait upon her in the morning ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 166 - ... 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...
Pàgina 7 - Truth might lie between He was certainly sixty-five; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads, which Guido has often painted mild, pale penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the earth it looked forwards; but looked, as if it looked at something beyond this world.
Pàgina 159 - When we had got within half a league of Moulines, at a little opening in the road leading to a thicket, I discovered poor Maria sitting under a poplar; — she was sitting with her elbow in her lap, and her head leaning on one side within her hand. A small brook ran at the foot of the tree.
Pàgina 51 - 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.
Pàgina 102 - Make the most of it you can, said I to myself, the Bastile is but another word for a tower ;— and a tower is but another word for a house you can't get out of. — Mercy on the gouty ! for they are in it twice a year. — But with nine livres a day, and pen and ink and paper and patience, albeit a man can't get out, he may do very well within...
Pàgina 103 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Pàgina 103 - ... 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. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture...
Pàgina 68 - I'm sure thou hast been a merciful master to him. Alas! said the mourner, I thought so when he was alive ; but now that he is dead, I think otherwise. I fear the weight of myself and my afflictions together, have been too much for him, they have shortened the poor creature's days, and I fear I have them to answer for.
Pàgina 68 - The mourner said, he did not want it it was not the value of the ass but the loss of him The ass, he said, he was assured loved him...
Pàgina 159 - Sylvio, said she. I looked in Maria's eyes, and saw she was thinking more of her father than of her lover or her little goat ; for as she uttered them the tears trickled down