The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, 1783 |
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Pàgina 41
... step of thoughtfulness , and with her eyes , as fhe went step by step , fixed upon the ground , it ftruck me , fhe was trying the fame caufe herself . God help her ! faid I , fhe has fome mother - in - law , or tartufish aunt , or ...
... step of thoughtfulness , and with her eyes , as fhe went step by step , fixed upon the ground , it ftruck me , fhe was trying the fame caufe herself . God help her ! faid I , fhe has fome mother - in - law , or tartufish aunt , or ...
Pàgina 67
... steps out of the circle , and making a disqualifying bow on his part . Had the whole parterre cried out , Place aux dames , with one voice , it would not have conveyed the fentiment of a defe- rence for the fex with half the effect ...
... steps out of the circle , and making a disqualifying bow on his part . Had the whole parterre cried out , Place aux dames , with one voice , it would not have conveyed the fentiment of a defe- rence for the fex with half the effect ...
Pàgina 98
... step in , it will be ready in a moment , and he fhall attend you to the place . So I walk'd in with her to the far fide of the shop , and tak- ing up the ruffle in my hand which she laid upon the chair , as if I had a 98 A SENTIMENTAL ...
... step in , it will be ready in a moment , and he fhall attend you to the place . So I walk'd in with her to the far fide of the shop , and tak- ing up the ruffle in my hand which she laid upon the chair , as if I had a 98 A SENTIMENTAL ...
Pàgina 109
... 'd to hand her to her coach - fo we went down the ftairs , stopping at every third step to talk of the concert and the adventure -Upon my word , Madame , faid I , when I had handed her in , I made fix THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY . 109.
... 'd to hand her to her coach - fo we went down the ftairs , stopping at every third step to talk of the concert and the adventure -Upon my word , Madame , faid I , when I had handed her in , I made fix THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY . 109.
Pàgina 130
... steps from me , as from an infected per- fon , as I declared this - and poor La Fleur advanced three fteps towards me , and with that fort of movement which a good foul makes to fuccour a diftrefs'd one the fellow won my heart by it ...
... steps from me , as from an infected per- fon , as I declared this - and poor La Fleur advanced three fteps towards me , and with that fort of movement which a good foul makes to fuccour a diftrefs'd one the fellow won my heart by it ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 137 - 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 of confinement...
Pàgina 137 - I saw him pale and feverish : in thirty years the -western breeze had not once fanned his blood — he had •seen no sun, no moon in all that time — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice —his children — — But here my heart began to bleed — and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Pàgina 132 - 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 220 - Shorn indeed ! and to the quick," said I ; " and wast thou in my own land, where I have a cottage, I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldst eat of my own bread, and drink of my own cup.
Pàgina 136 - I took a single captive; and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then look'd through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Pàgina 133 - I looked up and down the passage, and seeing neither man, woman, nor child, I went out without further attention. 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,
Pàgina 220 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion.
Pàgina 224 - ... 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 89 - I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and looking through the glass saw all the world in yellow, blue, and green, running at the ring of pleasure.