A sentimental journey France and Italy by L. Sterne. Also A tale of a tub by J. Swift1882 |
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Pàgina 46
... or four Louis d'ors , which is the most I can be overreached in ? -Base passion ! said I , turning myself about , as a man naturally does upon a sudden reverse of sentiment , -base , ungentle passion ! thy hand is against every man ...
... or four Louis d'ors , which is the most I can be overreached in ? -Base passion ! said I , turning myself about , as a man naturally does upon a sudden reverse of sentiment , -base , ungentle passion ! thy hand is against every man ...
Pàgina 89
... Louis d'ors with her , I should have said " This woman is grateful . " You must turn , Monsieur , said she , going with me to the door of the shop , and pointing the way down the street I was to take , -you must turn first to your left ...
... Louis d'ors with her , I should have said " This woman is grateful . " You must turn , Monsieur , said she , going with me to the door of the shop , and pointing the way down the street I was to take , -you must turn first to your left ...
Pàgina 145
... louis d'ors in my purse , there was no such thing as rising up and showing her the door till I had first laid three of them out in a pair of ruffles . -- -The master of the hotel will share the profit with . her ; no matter , then I ...
... louis d'ors in my purse , there was no such thing as rising up and showing her the door till I had first laid three of them out in a pair of ruffles . -- -The master of the hotel will share the profit with . her ; no matter , then I ...
Pàgina 147
... louis d'ors pour s'adoniser , when we got to Paris ; and the poor fellow , to do him justice , had done wonders with it . He had bought a bright , clean , good scarlet coat , and a pair of breeches of the same.— -They were not a crown ...
... louis d'ors pour s'adoniser , when we got to Paris ; and the poor fellow , to do him justice , had done wonders with it . He had bought a bright , clean , good scarlet coat , and a pair of breeches of the same.— -They were not a crown ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 344 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Pàgina 112 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to Liberty, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change.
Pàgina 255 - What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of...
Pàgina 166 - Eternal fountain of our feeling! — 'tis here I trace thee, — and this is thy "divinity which stirs within me;" — not that. in some sad and sickening moments, " my soul shrinks back upon Herself, and startles at destruction...
Pàgina 316 - 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.
Pàgina 260 - ... 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.
Pàgina 167 - Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy "divinity which stirs within me" not, that in some sad and sickening moments, "my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction" 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 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.
Pàgina 255 - It is true, indeed, that these animals, which are vulgarly called suits of clothes or dresses, do according to certain compositions receive different appellations. If one of them be trimmed up with a gold chain, and a red gown, and a white rod, and a great horse, it is called a...
Pàgina 337 - Epicurus modestly hoped that one time or other, a certain fortuitous concourse of all men's opinions, after perpetual justlings, the sharp with the smooth, the light and the heavy, the round and the square, would, by certain clinamina, unite in the notions of atoms and void, as these did in the originals of all things. Cartesius reckoned to see, before he died, the sentiments of all philosophers, like so many lesser stars in his romantick system, wrapped and drawn within his own vortex.