The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, 1783 |
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Pàgina 10
... betwixt those who wish only to eat the bread of their own labour - and those who eat the bread of other people's , and have no other plan in life , but to get through it in floth and ignorance , for the love of 10 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY ́ ·
... betwixt those who wish only to eat the bread of their own labour - and those who eat the bread of other people's , and have no other plan in life , but to get through it in floth and ignorance , for the love of 10 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY ́ ·
Pàgina 13
... betwixt us , and being determined to write my journey , I took out my pen and ink , and wrote the preface to it in the Defobligeant . IT PREFACE . IN THE DESOBLIGEANT . T must have been observed by many a peripatetic philofopher , That ...
... betwixt us , and being determined to write my journey , I took out my pen and ink , and wrote the preface to it in the Defobligeant . IT PREFACE . IN THE DESOBLIGEANT . T must have been observed by many a peripatetic philofopher , That ...
Pàgina 25
... betwixt them , but he inftantly falls into the fame frame of mind , and views his conventionist with the fame fort of eye , as if he was going along with him to Hyde - park corner to fight a duel . For my own part , being but a poor ...
... betwixt them , but he inftantly falls into the fame frame of mind , and views his conventionist with the fame fort of eye , as if he was going along with him to Hyde - park corner to fight a duel . For my own part , being but a poor ...
Pàgina 43
... betwixt us , just as the lady was returning back to the door of the Remife , he introduced him- felf to my acquaintance , and before he had well got announced , begg'd I would do him the honour to present him to the lady - I had not ...
... betwixt us , just as the lady was returning back to the door of the Remife , he introduced him- felf to my acquaintance , and before he had well got announced , begg'd I would do him the honour to present him to the lady - I had not ...
Pàgina 63
... betwixt one paffion and another whilft this interregnum lafts , I always perceive my heart locked up - I can scarce find in it to give Mi- fery a fixpence ; and therefore I always get out of it as fast as I can , and the moment I am ...
... betwixt one paffion and another whilft this interregnum lafts , I always perceive my heart locked up - I can scarce find in it to give Mi- fery a fixpence ; and therefore I always get out of it as fast as I can , and the moment I am ...
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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.